Business
Immigration
Regions of the U.S.A.
Finance
Vocabulary
100

This is something that is nice to have but not required

What is a want?

100

A person who moves from one country to another

Who is an immigrant?

100

This is the geographic region where we live.

What is the Northeast?

100

A person or company who buys a good or service.

What is a consumer?

100

Something that is required for survival

What is need?

200

This is a person who takes a risk and starts a business.

What is an entrepreneur?

200

The lower deck of a ship where cargo is usually stored. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this part of the ship held passengers who were coming to the United States of America

What is steerage?

200

A large area in which places share similar characteristics is known as a(n) __________.

What is a region?

200

A person or company who makes a good or provides a service to sell to others.

What is a producer?

200

Extreme hunger

What is famine?

300

This plan explains a business in detail.

What is a business plan?

300

Located in New York Harbor, this was the United States’ busiest immigration inspection station. From 1892-1924, about 12 million immigrants were processed here.

What is Ellis Island?

300

Explain the difference between weather and climate.

Weather is the condition of the air at a certain time and place. Climate is the weather pattern in one place over a long period of time.

300

Name three reasons modern economies use money to trade. 

What are...

  1. Money can be traded for anything.

  2. Money is easy to carry.

  3. Money can be divided into smaller quantities.

  4. Money is uniform.

300

Goods that are made in another country and brought to the United States and sold here.

What are imports?

400

In order to attract customers, businesses advertise. Name three ways business might choose to do this?

What are make a poster, a commercial, an ad on the radio, an ad on social media, a billboard, an ad in a magazine?

400

Located in the San Francisco Bay, this was the port of entry for immigrants arriving in the western United States in the 1800s. Many Chinese immigrants were detained here for many years.

What is Angel Island?

400

This is the geographic region has the least amount of states. 

What is the Southwest?

400

Explain what will happen to the price of a product if the supply of a product is low and the demand for that product is high.

What is the price of the product will rise?

400

The amount a company can produce with a certain amount of labor

What is productivity?

500

Business have to plan their expenses carefully. What do they have to create to make sure they earn enough money to cover their expenses and goals?

What is a budget?

500

Immigrants in the mid to late 1800s and early 1900s came to the United States for many reasons. Name one of them. 

What is to....

1. find work or a better paying job.

2. to escape war or a difficult life.

3. to own land.

4. for religious freedom.

500
Name the five geographic regions of the United States.

What are the Northeast, the Southeast, the Southwest, the Midwest, and the West. 

500

Bob wanted to buy a video game but also wanted to buy new sneakers because his didn’t fit any more. In the end Bob decided to buy the sneakers because he needed them and he didn’t actually need the video game. What is this an example of?

What is opportunity cost?

500

Hostility and ill-treatment especially because of race, political beliefs, or religious beliefs

What is persecution?

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