Economic Activities

Q.

Which one of the following agencies markets steel for the public sector plants?

1. HAIL

2. SAIL

3. TATA Steel

4. MNCC

Q.

Why are most of the private hospitals and private schools located in major cities and not in towns or rural areas?

Q. The banking and insurance sectors are good examples of which type of economic activity?

1. Primary economic activity
2. Secondary economic activity
3. Tertiary economic activity
4. None of the above

Q. Which of the following crops is a commercial crop?

1. Wheat
2. Barley
3. Maize
4. Tea

Q. All activities connected with the extraction and production of natural resources are called activities.

1. primary
2. secondary
3. tertiary
4. quaternary

Q. The efforts made to increase farm production in order to meet the growing demand of increasing population is called ____________.

1. agricultural quotient
2. agricultural degeneration
3. agricultural development
4. agricultural index

Q. From the examples of primary activities given below, pick out the one that is not a primary activity.

1. Fishing
2. Agriculture
3. Baking bread
4. Gathering

Q. The efforts made to increase farm production in order to meet the growing demand of increasing population is called ____________.

1. agricultural quotient
2. agricultural degeneration
3. agricultural development
4. agricultural index

Q. From the following, which one best describes a secondary economic activity?

1. Process that involves extraction and production of natural resources like baking bread, making cloth, etc.
2. Process of engaging maximum population in a particular economic activity.
3. Process that includes all those connected with extraction and production of natural resources like agriculture, mining etc.
4. Activities that help the primary and secondary economic activities through service, transport etc.

Q. Pick out the secondary economic activity from the given options.

1. Transport
2. Steel processing
3. Crop cultivation
4. Mineral mining

Q. reason behind different levels of agricultural economic development between USA and India reason behind different levels of agricultural economic development between USA and India reason behind different levels of agricultural economic development between USA and India

Q. Which of the following are the examples of tertiary activities?

1. Transport and trade
2. Banking and insurance
3. Advertising
4. All of the above

Q. Distinguish between the followings.
Primary activites and tertiary activities