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Class 6 Economic Activities Around Us worksheet
CBSE Social Science. Primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, how they depend on each other, value added at each step. Every sheet has 20 questions in three sections and an answer key, and the numbers change every time.
Sample questions
Real questions from this chapter, as the app sets them. Tap Answer to see the answer and working.
Section A · multiple choice
- 1.
Activities that take things directly from nature, like farming and fishing, belong to the:
- tertiary sector
- service sector only
- secondary sector
- primary sector
Answer
(d) primary sector
- 2.
Building a house belongs to which sector?
- secondary sector
- primary sector
- tertiary sector
- household sector
Answer
(a) secondary sector
- 3.
Which of these is a primary activity?
- turning milk into paneer in a dairy plant
- teaching in a school
- making cloth in a mill
- rearing cows for milk
Answer
(d) rearing cows for milk
Section B · short answer
- 4.
What is an economic activity?
Answer
An activity done to earn money or to produce goods and services that have money value.
- 5.
Write primary, secondary or tertiary for each: (a) selling goods in a shop (b) a doctor treating patients
Answer
(a) tertiary (b) tertiary
Section C · long answer
- 6.
Explain the three sectors of economic activity with two examples of each.
Answer
The 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).
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