CBSE Class 10 Social Science Competency Based Questions Sectors of Indian Economy available here. We have included total 3 set of passage. Each passage has 3 questions. Students who are going to prepare their Board exam please Read the passage below and answer the following questions.
Sectors of Indian Economy Class 10 Competency Based Questions:
1) Read the passage below and answer the following questions
There are many activities that are undertaken by directly using natural resources. Take, for example, the cultivation of cotton. It takes place within a crop season. For the growth of the cotton plant, we depend mainly, but not entirely, on natural factors like rainfall, sunshine, and climate. The product of this activity, cotton, is a natural product.
1.) Which one of the following activities does not comes under primary sector activities?
a) Mining
b) Horticulture
c) Urban forestry
D) Spinning yarn
2.) What are secondary sector activities and how they are different from primary sector activities?
The activities which involve changing natural products into more refined products by the ways of manufacturing are known as secondary sector activities. It differs from primary sector activities because it also includes manufacturing processes and involves value addition which is not done in primary sector activities.
3.) Read the following statements.
1.) The agriculture sector comes under primary sector activities.
2.) The Horticulture sector comes under secondary sector activities.
3.) The secondary sector is also known as the industrial sector.
4.) Mining is a primary sector activity.
5.) The tertiary sector is also known as the service sector.
Identify the correct pair.
a.) 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
b.) 1, 2, 3, and 4
c.) 1, 3, 4, and 5
d.) 1, 2, 4, and 5
2) Read the passage below and answer the following questions
The various production activities in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors produce a very large number of goods and services. Also, the three sectors have a large number of people working in them to produce these goods and services.In an economy there could be one or more sectors which are dominant in terms of total production and employment, while other sectors are relatively small in size.
1.) For estimating the total income of a sector which of the following are included-
a) Cost of intermediary goods and services
b) Cost of final goods and services
c) Cost of raw materials
d) All of the above
2.) The correct definition of Gross Domestic Product of a country is-
a) The cost of raw material of all the goods and services produced in an economy is known as GDP.
b) The cost of all the goods and services produced in an economy is known as GDP.
c) The cost of final goods and services produced in an economy is known as GDP.
d) The cost of intermediary products of all the goods and services produced in an economy is known as GDP.
3.) How the development pattern of India is different from the other developed countries in the world?
The developed countries all over the world have developed from primary sector to secondary sector and then finally to tertiary sector. While in India the economy developed directly into tertiary sector from the primary sector, and the secondary sector remained relatively underdeveloped.
3) Read the passage below and answer the following questions
Even though industrial output or the production of goods went up by more than nine times during the period, employment in the industry went up by around three times. The same applies to the tertiary sector as well. While production in the service sector rose by 14 times, employment in the service sector rose around five times.
1.) What is the contribution of agriculture sector in the GDP and employment generation in the country?
In India agriculture sector is the largest employer as more than half of the workers are working in the primary sector. But on contrary it is only one sixth of the GDP, i.e. its contribution is way less than the number of workers it is employing.
2.) Which is the example of underemployment?
a) An illiterate farmer working in the agriculture field.
b) A family of 8 people working in a small agricultural field because of unemployment.
c) Both of the above
d) None of the above
3.) What is disguised unemployment?
When a greater number of people are employed in the same piece of work than required because of large scale unemployment and poverty, then the additional number of people employed in that work is known as hidden unemployment or disguised unemployment.
4.) DIRECTIONS for the question: In each of the questions given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Mark your answer as per the codes provided below:
Assertion(A): Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was introduced in 2005.
Reason(R): Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act gives effect to right to work of people.
a) A is true but R is false.
b) A is false but R is true.
c) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
d) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
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