1. 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 Adapted from Houghton Mifflin: A Legacy of Literacy, 2001

2. 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

3. 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.
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4. 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.
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5. 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

6. 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.
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7. 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.
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8. 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

9. 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.
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10. 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.
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11. If you finished this game…
…your understanding of “New England’s Economy” vocabulary is stronger than ever.