social studies ch. 5

things people buy or sell

• goods

• service

• entrepreneur

• profit

work that one person does for another

• goods

• service

• entrepreneur

• profit

a person who takes a risk, or chance, and starts a business

• goods

• service

• entrepreneur

• profit

the money a business earns after paying all its costs

• goods

• service

• entrepreneur

• profit

a kind of graph that uses lines and dots to show how something changes over time

• line graph

• transportation

• steam engine

• railroad

the way people and things are carried from one place to another

• line graph

• transportation

• steam engine

• railroad

a machine that turns steam into power

• line graph

• transportation

• steam engine

• railroad

a track with two steel rails on which trains move

• line graph

• transportation

• steam engine

• railroad

a machine that sends signals by eletricity.

• telegraph

• map scale

• steam engine

• railroad

helps measure distance on maps

• telegraph

• map scale

• line graph

• profit