| resources | | Period in the business cycle characterized by low unemployment, high production, and opening of new businesses |
| GDP | | Biggest portion of consumer income is spent on this. |
| values | | Business owned by one person |
| socialism | | type of resource that combines natural, human, and capital resources to produce goods/services |
| capital | | Aims or objectives |
| goods | | business that moves goods from one business to another, also called an intermediary |
| traditional | | Goal that can be achieved within a few weeks to a few months |
| intermediate | | Type of business in which the right to sell a parent company's goods/services within a specified territory are purchased |
| wholesaler | | The number of goods/services produced during a certain period of time. |
| distributor | | Anything people can use to make or obtain what they need or want |
| goals | | Resource that includes items that come from the air, water, or earth |
| soleproprietorship | | Economic sytem in which the government makes all the decisions regarding which goods/services to produce, how they will be produced, and how the goods/services will be distributed |
| partnership | | goals that can be achieved within one year |
| shortterm | | goals that take longer than a year to achieve |
| recovery | | Period in the business cycle when production starts to increase, people go back to work, and spending increases |
| citizen | | Business that distributes goods from one business to another. Buys in large quantities and sells in smaller quantities |
| natural | | turn raw or processed goods into finished goods |
| shelter | | Type of resource that includes all items other than natural resources that are used to produce goods and services |
| recession | | Your role when your purchase goods/services |
| Human | | Period in the business cycle when spending decreases and the unemployment rate increases |
| corporation | | Organization owned by many people but treated by the law as in one person owned it |
| franchise | | Business that does not provide tangible goods to consumers |
| consumer | | Business owned by two or more people |
| retailer | | Part of the business cycle characterized by high unemployment and low productivity |
| communism | | Business that provides goods/services directly to the consumer |
| capitalism | | Your role when you vote, pay taxes, and obey the law |
| prosperity | | Items that satisfy the need for wants/needs. They can be physically weighted and measured. |
| entrepreneurial | | Resource that describes the people who contribute the physical and mental energy to the production of goods/services |
| depression | | Things that you prize and think are important, your beliefs and principles |
| manufacturers | | Basic economic decisions that are based on the actions of individual people and businesses participating in different markets |
| longterm | | Economic system in which the government owns major industries but allows for private ownership of businesses |
| services | | Economic system in which people do things the way they have always been done. |