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CBSE · Class 6 · Social Science

Economic Activities Around Us

Standard difficulty · 20 questions · 40 marks

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Write full answers in Sections B and C. Answers are on the last page — try every question first!

Section A — Choose the correct answer8 × 1 = 8 marks
1.
Activities that take things directly from nature, like farming and fishing, belong to the:
  1. tertiary sector
  2. service sector only
  3. secondary sector
  4. primary sector
2.
Building a house belongs to which sector?
  1. secondary sector
  2. primary sector
  3. tertiary sector
  4. household sector
3.
Which of these is a primary activity?
  1. turning milk into paneer in a dairy plant
  2. teaching in a school
  3. making cloth in a mill
  4. rearing cows for milk
4.
Which of these is a secondary activity?
  1. delivering parcels
  2. teaching in a school
  3. making cloth in a mill
  4. farming
5.
Which of these is a tertiary activity?
  1. making cloth in a mill
  2. growing cotton
  3. baking biscuits in a factory
  4. working in a bank
6.
In the making of a cotton shirt, which step belongs to the tertiary sector?
  1. transporting the tins by truck to markets
  2. selling it at a shop
  3. carrying it to a shop and selling it
  4. delivering it to a home
7.
In a village of 1,300 workers, 11 out of every 100 work in farming and fishing. How many workers is that?
  1. 143 workers
  2. 1,157 workers
  3. 481 workers
  4. 676 workers
8.
A farmer sells cotton for ₹250. A mill turns it into cloth worth ₹600, and a shop sells the shirts made from it for ₹1,070. By how much did the value rise from the farm to the shop?
  1. ₹470
  2. ₹350
  3. ₹820
  4. ₹1,320
Section B — Short answer8 × 2 = 16 marks
9.
What is an economic activity?
10.
Write primary, secondary or tertiary for each: (a) selling goods in a shop (b) a doctor treating patients
11.
To which sector does each step belong? (a) cleaning and canning fish in a factory (for a tin of fish) (b) making steel and spoons in factories (for a steel spoon)
12.
Why do selling goods in a shop and a doctor treating patients belong to the tertiary sector?
13.
In a town of 1,800 workers, 36 out of every 100 work in the primary sector and 10 out of every 100 in the secondary sector. The rest work in the tertiary sector. How many work in the tertiary sector?
14.
A fisher sells 19 kg of fish at ₹28 a kg to a canning factory. How much does the fisher earn, and to which sector does the factory belong?
15.
A dairy farmer sells 55 litres of milk to a dairy plant. The plant needs 5 litres of milk to make 1 kg of paneer. How many kg of paneer can it make?
16.
Give one way each activity depends on another sector: (a) cutting timber in a forest (b) teaching in a school
Section C — Longer answers4 × 4 = 16 marks
17.
Explain the three sectors of economic activity with two examples of each.
18.
Describe the journeys of a tin of fish and a packet of biscuits from nature to your home. For each, name the step in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, and say why the sectors depend on each other.
19.
A survey of 1,900 workers found 58 out of every 100 in the primary sector, 17 in the secondary and the rest in the tertiary. (a) How many work in each sector? (b) Which sector has the most workers? (c) Give one reason why many people in villages work in the primary sector.
20.
Cotton from a farm is sold for ₹270; the cloth made from it is worth ₹870; the finished shirts sell for ₹1,360. (a) How much value did the mill add? (b) How much value did the shop add? (c) Why does the value go up at each step?
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QAnswerWorking
1(d) primary sector—
2(a) secondary sector—
3(d) rearing cows for milk—
4(c) making cloth in a mill—
5(d) working in a bank—
6(c) carrying it to a shop and selling it—
7(a) 143 workers1,300 ÷ 100 × 11
8(c) ₹820₹1,070 − ₹250
9An activity done to earn money or to produce goods and services that have money value.—
10(a) tertiary (b) tertiary—
11(a) secondary (b) secondary—
12Because they provide services, not goods.—
13972 workers54 out of every 100; 1,800 ÷ 100 × 54
14₹532; the secondary sector19 × 28
1511 kg55 ÷ 5 = 11
16(a) primary (b) tertiary—
17The primary sector uses nature directly (farming, mining); the secondary sector makes goods from raw materials (cloth mills, building construction); the tertiary sector provides services (teaching, transport).—
18a tin of fish: primary, catching fish; secondary, cleaning and canning fish in a factory; tertiary, transporting the tins by truck to markets. a packet of biscuits: primary, growing wheat and sugarcane; secondary, baking and packing biscuits in a factory; tertiary, transporting them to a grocery shop that sells them. Each step needs the one before it: no factory without raw materials, no sales without goods and transport.—
19(a) primary 1,102, secondary 323, tertiary 475 (b) the primary sector (c) for example, farming and animal rearing are the main work available on village land.1,900 ÷ 100 × each share
20(a) ₹600 (b) ₹490 (c) Each step adds work, machines, transport and skill, which make the product more useful.₹870 − ₹270; ₹1,360 − ₹870