Download from BCPS Grade 5 Elementary Language Arts website. If you… A Vocabulary Game for Grade 5 Social Studies BCPS Department of Elementary Reading/Language Arts, August 2006 Adapted from Houghton Mifflin: A Legacy of Literacy, 2001

If you are a business that makes one kind of product or provides one kind of service you would be an industry or economy? industry economy

That’s right! Industry is all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service . The New England colonists built successful fishing, whaling, trading, and shipbuilding industries. Next

Oops! Economy is the way a society organizes to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services. New England’s economy began to prosper because of the sea and forest industries. Try again

natural resource merchant If you were a person that buys and sells goods for a profit, would you be a merchant or natural resource? natural resource merchant

That’s right! A merchant is someone who buys and sells goods for a profit. The merchant imported tea from England to sell to the colonists. Next

Oops! A natural resource is a gift of nature that can be used to produce goods and services. The wood or fruit from a tree is a natural resource. Try again

If you were studying the way a society organizes to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services, would you be learning about the industry or economy? industry economy

That’s Right! Economy is the way a society organizes to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services. New England’s economy depended on natural resources from the sea and forests. Next

Oops! Industry is all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service. Whaling is an industry that helped New England’s economy prosper. Try again

If you finished this game… …your understanding of “New England’s Economy” vocabulary is stronger than ever.