Wk30: A Booming Economy SS/Reading

Name and Last

1. If you are the first to find something new, you make a....

• discovery
• demand
• industry

2. The oil business operated under a system of....

• boomtown
• free enterprise
• supply

3. The oil from the well went to a houston _____to be clean.

• industry
• refinery
• supply

4. After oil was found nearby, the village became a ....

• refinery
• wildcatter
• boomtown

5. Because of bad weather, the ______of fruit fell.

• supply
• petroleum
• discovery

6. Oil, sometimes called______is used to make plastics.

• supply
• petroleum
• refinery

7. The ______for oil kept growing and growing

• free enterprise
• profit
• demand

8. The money left over after paying all the cost of a business is the.....

• supply
• profit
• demand

9. You had to be bold to be a _______in the early 1900's

• demand
• wildcatter
• refinery