Chapter 9 Mississippi History

The way a community uses its resources to meet people's needs

• free-enterprise system

• economy

• consumer

• entrepreneur

the system that allows people to be free to own their own businesses and make their own economic decisions

• agribusiness

• economy

• investors

• free-enterprise

the money a business earns after it pays for supplies, tolls, salaries and other costs

• profit

• investments

• economy

• free-enterprise

someone who puts money into a business and gets some of the profits

• investor

• economy

• profit

• entrepreneur

person who buys a product or service

• salesman

• entrepreneur

• consumer

• investor

Mississippi's most important farm products (choose two)

• cotton

• poultry

• eggs

• cattle

a farm combined with other businesses is called

• agribusiness

• economy

• profit

• consumer

choose the top three crops currently produced in Mississippi

• cotton

• forestry

• catfish

• poultry

• eggs

aquaculture is

• the culture of a school of fish

• raising fish for sale

• eating fish for dinner

• swimming in the ocean looking for fish

a business in which people help other people

• mechanical industry

• service industry

• restaurant industry

• music industry