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Question Numbers: 31-35PASSAGE 3:What is meant by the term economic resources? In general, these are all the natural, man-made, and human resources that go into the production of goods and services. This obviously covers a lot of ground: factories and farms, tools and machines, transportation and communication facilities, all types of natural resources, and labor, Economic resources can be broken down into two general categories: property resources-land and capital and human resources: labor and entrepreneurial skills.What do economists mean by land? More than non-constructed real estate, land refers to all natural resources used to produce goods and services: mineral resources, forests, petroleum, and oil deposits, and so on. What about capital? Capital goods are all the man-made aids to production, including tools, machinery, and buildings and all services. Capital goods differ from consumer goods in that the latter satisfy wants directly, while the former do so indirectly by facilitating the production of consumer goods. It should not be mixed up with money from the layman's point of view. Money is not capital.The term labor refers to the physical and mental talents of humans used to produce goods and services and it excludes entrepreneurial skills. Entrepreneurial ability is the ability of a risk taker to combine land, labor, and capital into a productive enterprise. Thus the services of a factory worker or a scientist (without a flair of judgment and enterprise) are examples of labor while those of the entrepreneur, a hotel director or an astronaut all fall under the head of entrepreneurial ability.