Level 1
Give one example of primary employment and one example of tertiary employment.
Primary = Agriculture / fishing / mining etc.
Tertiary = Education / banking / lawyer / driver / doctor etc.
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is an example of which industry?
Public sector industries.
Bhadravati and Vijay Nagar in Karnataka, Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh,
Salem in Tamil Nadu are important ____________.
Steel Centers.
Explain how the location of industry can be influenced by transport.
To transport raw materials/inputs/imports
To transport finished goods/outputs/exports
To reduce costs.
Easy and efficient transportation of bulky materials and perishable goods
What do you understand by Food Security?
Food security means when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
Who am I?
Also known as coarse grains and can be grown on less fertile and sandy soils.
Millets
Why do we need manufacturing industries? Give two reasons.
They employ a huge share of the labor force.
They convert raw materials into finished materials.
Shifting cultivation is known by different names in different parts of the world. Name them
Jhumming:
Milpa:
Roca:
Ladang:
Jhumming - North-East India
Milpa -Mexico, Central America
Roca - Brazil.
Ladang - Malaysia
What is the difference between goods and services?
Goods are tangible items produced by primary and secondary industries. Services are intangible and are sold by tertiary industries.
Name two types of coal.
Bituminous Coal and Anthracite Coal
Activities that take raw materials and change them to useful forms are called?
Secondary Activities.
Why is information technology industry also known as 'Sunrise industries'? Give one example of such industry.
As these are the new emerging industries.
Eg: Travel and Tourism, Information Technology.
Which two gases were released during the Bhopal Gas tragedy?
Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) gas along with Hydrogen Cyanide.
How all the sectors of economy complement each other. Explain with examples.
Primary sectors use inputs like land, capital, machinery to grow and extract natural resources. They take loan from banks, use transportation services for machinery, seeds, raw material etc.
The secondary sector again with the help of tertiary sector (transportation) turn these raw materials them into final products. They also need loan for purchase of machinery, land etc. These final products are then transported again to the customers. They also need to be marketed and advertised with the help of tertiary sector.
Tertiary sector cannot survive without the existence of Primary and Secondary sector.
The names of Great Lakes are__________.
Superior, Huron, Ontario, Michigan and Erie.
What is meant by the following?
Input
Process
Output
Inputs: resources/things needed in order for production to take place.
• Processes: what is done to the inputs to turn them into outputs/create a product.
• Outputs: the products which are produced/what they sell.
Where is shifting cultivation practiced?
Which crops are grown in this type of farming?
Shifting cultivation is practiced in the thickly forested areas of Amazon basin, tropical Africa, parts of southeast Asia and Northeast India.
Crops like maize, yam, potatoes and cassava are grown.
Explain Nomadic Herding.
Nomadic herding is practiced in the semi-arid and arid regions of Sahara, Central Asia and some parts of India, like Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir. In this type of farming, herdsmen move from place to place with their animals for fodder and water, along defined routes. This type of movement arises in response to climatic constraints and terrain.
The ______, the ________ and ________ rivers provide adequate water supply the steel industry at Pittsburg, USA.
Ohio, Monogahela and Allegheny.
Mr. X has a field in Madhya Pradesh. He wants to grow a certain form of Plantation crop. Keeping in about the climate and soil which crops he should grow and why?
The most suitable plantation to grow here would be Cotton and Wheat.
With its semi-arid climate, temperatures and rainfall being rainfall and the availability of alluvial and black soil.
Steel is often called the backbone of modern industry. Why?
Almost everything we use is either made of iron or steel or has been made with tools and machinery of these metals.
What is an Industrial Region? Name two industrial regions of India.
When several industries are located close to each other and share the benefits of their closeness it is referred to as an Industrial Region.
Gurgaon-Delhi - Meerut Region
Mumbai-Pune Cluster.
Why Sakchi was chosen to set up the steel plant. Give at least 3 reasons.
1. This place was only 32 km away from Kalimati station on the Bengal-Nagpur railway line.
2. It was close to the iron ore, coal and manganese deposits as well as to Kolkata, which provided a large market.
3. TISCO, gets coal from Jharia coalfields, and iron ore, limestone, dolomite and manganese from Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
4. The Kharkai and Subarnarekha rivers ensured sufficient water supply.
5. Government initiatives provided adequate capital.
'The development of the iron and steel industry opened the doors to rapid industrial development in India'. Explain this statement with an example.
It opened the doors to rapid industrial development in India.
Almost all sectors of the Indian industry depend heavily on the iron and steel industry for their basic infrastructure.
The Indian iron and steel industry consists of large integrated steel plants as well as mini steel mills. It also includes secondary producers, rolling mills.
What is crop rotation and state one benefit of it?
A different crop is planted in the same soil each year.
It keeps the soil healthy.