CG SCERT Chhattisgarh State Board Class 7 Social Science (Civics) Chapter 4 Industry An Introduction Exercises Questions and Answers.
(I) Fill in the Blanks
(1) India is an __________ country
Ans: – Agricultural
(2) The industrial business operates by mar, machine and __________
Ans: – electricity
(3)Raw material for potters are _______
Ans: – Soil
(4) The decorative items made of soil are called __________
Ans: – Pottery
(5) Making of earther port and goglet is called __________
Ans: – Handicrafts.
(6) The thread on the warp is called ______threas.
Ans: – weft
(7) Silk worms are breed on _______________ trees
Ans: – Sal, Ber and Senda
(8) Before boiling cocoons _________ is wrapped over it
Ans: – Paste
(II) Answer the following questions
(1) What is raw material?
Ans: – Raw material is a material of substance used in primary production or manufacture of goods. Example – cotton for clothes, sugarcane for sugar are raw materials.
(2) Who are artisans?
Ans: – Man power is used to produce utensils by clay, biddi, table, chair, silk, embroidery and knitting, winnowing – basket etc. These people who makes these handicrafts are called artisans.
(3) What is a market?
Ans: – Market is place where people buys and sells many things (items) like, rice, cereals, vegetables, copy, book, pen, toothpaste, biscuits, milk etc. There are many types of markets. Such as – weekly market, permanent market, big shopping complex, whole sale market etc.
(4) Why are utensils and other things made only from smooth soil of the river bank?
Ans: – To make utensils and other things potter needs clay soil which are soft and smooth. It is available only in the river bank. Some utensils and other things are made only from smooth soil of the river bank.
(5) What ways are used to sell the utensils of soil?
Ans: – Potters sell the utensils of soil in the weekly markets and permanent market independently. Sometimes they sell their utensils in the whole sale market.
(6) What all change are found in potter? Write in your words.
Ans: – Ago the potter brings soft and smooth soils form the banks wheel. These smooth and soft soils are not available. Now the potters dig out soil form the government land owner at the rate of per tractor. These soils are not good enough to make the utensils like the soil of the river, but the work goes on.
(7) From where do weavers family get cocoon?
Ans: – Larvae of the silk warm eat the leaves of mulberry and many other trees and spin thread type casing all-around it with its saliva. This cover is called cocoon or fruit of kosa. So the weaver’s family get cocoon from mulberry trees.
(8) How do weavers make fabric of Kosa?
Ans: – To make fabric of kosa, weavers give small merchandise the kosa fruit and stem thread. The weaver and good cocoons and wrap the good kosa fruit with paste so that it might not rupture while boiling, after this the cocoon is placed is an earthen pot with warming soda and kept on stove. It boiled for two to three hours and later these boiled cocoon is washed with clear water so that the sticky substance over the cocoon is washed away and the cocoon is read to give smooth and continuous thread from it. After this the boiled cocoons are dried on clothes spread on candle others.
Later these cocoons are wrapped in wet clothes. Then the thread from cocoons starts coming out. Cocoons are kept in plate. The weaver and their families rub these on their things and spin the yarn into stands after spinning the yarn on the spidles, thread is draped in the sheathe by sitting near the wheel.
While weaving second thread in Kneaded in width. This is knows weft or filling fabric is woven with the help of warp and weft through this process weavers make fabric of kosa.
(9) What all work does a small merchant do?
Ans: – A small merchant makes clothes from weavers and keep their records. According to the need of new design and order placed they are provided by Korean thread and cocoons. Small merchants provide clothes according to big dealer.