Chapter 8 Vocabulary Crossword
Across
- 3. a group of businesses that make a type of product or provide a type of service
- 4. a design burned into the hide of a cow
- 9. grassy plains
- 11. in the city
- 12. a cowboy that rides along the borders of a ranch to watch the cattle
- 14. a time of rapid growth
- 15. natural oil
- 19. an economic system in which people are free to buy and sell goods and services with little control by the government
- 20. to make or process goods, especially by machine, in large quantities
- 21. a newly created product
Down
- 1. a factory that cleans and processes oil into products such as gasoline or kerosene
- 2. a line of workers who put together just one part of each product riding on a moving platform past the workers who stay in place
- 4. a twisted wire with sharp points, or barbs, along it
- 5. a place where two or more rail lines meet
- 6. a person or company that buys or uses goods and services
- 7. a steam engine used to pull a train
- 8. a sudden rush of a herd of frightened animals such as cattle
- 10. a person or company that makes or sells goods
- 13. the number of items that producers offer for sale at a certain price
- 16. in the countryside
- 17. a consumer's, or buyer's, willingness to buy a good or service at a certain price
- 18. a systematic gathering of things, such as cattle