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History - Ch.3 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| industry | the process of using resources, especially machinery, to produce goods and services. |
| agriculture | the science or practice of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming. |
| productivity | how efficiently something can be made; the rate of output. |
| natural resource | a naturally-made item, such as a tree, mineral, or fresh water, that people can use to help meet a need or want. |
| supply chain | the network and process involved in creating a product, including obtaining raw materials, transportation, production, and delivery. |
| sharecropper | a farmer who lives on land owned by someone else, rents animals, equipment, and supplies to farm the land, and pays the landowner back with a large share of the harvest. |
| tenant farmer | someone who owns there own animals, equipment, and supplies, but rents land from a landowner and pays the landowner back by giving up a share of the harvest. |
| rural | of or relating to the countryside and the people who live there. |
| timber | wood used in building and carpentry. |
| innovate | to create a new or improved method, idea, or product. |
| entrepreneur | a person who takes the risk to organize resources to produce a new or better good or service in hopes of gaining a profit. |
| immigrate | to move to a foreign country and take up residence there. |