NCERT Class 6 Social Science Chapter 14 Questions and Answers Economic Activities Around Us

Economic Activities Around Us

NCERT Class 6th SST Chapter 14: Questions and Answers

The Big Questions (Page 195)

1. How are economic activities classified?

Answer:
Economic activities are divided into different types based on what they do. Some activities depend directly on nature, like farming. Others change raw materials into finished products, like factories making clothes. Some activities offer services to other sectors, like transport or education.

2. What makes these activities fall into different sectors?

Answer:

• Primary Sector: This includes activities that depend directly on nature to make goods, like farming, fishing, and mining.
• Secondary Sector: This includes activities where people change the raw materials from the primary sector into finished goods, like manufacturing and construction.
• Tertiary Sector: This includes activities that provide services to both the primary and secondary sectors, like transportation, banking, and education.

3. How are the three sectors connected?

Answer:
The three sectors are closely linked:

• The secondary sector relies on the primary sector for raw materials (e.g., raw cotton for textile factories) and on the tertiary sector for transporting and selling products.
• The tertiary sector depends on both the primary and secondary sectors for goods to sell and for business income.
• The primary sector depends on the secondary sector for tools and equipment, and on the tertiary sector to move its final products to market.

Let’s Explore

1. Can you name two more activities in the secondary sector?

Answer:

• Food Industry: Converting fruits and vegetables into products like jams, sauces, and pickles.
• Chemical Industry: Changing raw materials like oil, water, and metals into chemicals used in other industries and by consumers.

2. Label the sectors in the image on page 206:

Answer:

1. Primary sector
2. Primary sector
3. Tertiary sector
4. Tertiary sector
5. Secondary sector
6. Secondary sector
7. Secondary sector
8. Tertiary sector

Questions, Activities, and Projects (Page 208)

1. What is the primary sector? How is it different from the secondary sector? Give two examples.

Answer:

• Primary Sector: This includes activities that depend directly on natural resources. Examples include farming, fishing, mining, and forestry.
  Examples:
  • A farmer growing cotton.
  • A fisherman catching fish.
• Secondary Sector: This involves manufacturing or processing raw materials to make finished goods. Examples include factories that produce clothes or steel.
  Examples:
  • Turning cotton into cloth in a textile mill.
  • Making sugar from sugarcane.

2. How does the secondary sector depend on the tertiary sector? Give examples.

Answer:
The secondary sector needs the tertiary sector for services like transportation and retail. For example, a company like AMUL (which makes milk products) uses trucks, trains, and planes to deliver its products. Retail shops also sell products made by the secondary sector, such as AMUL products being sold in stores. This transport, trade, and selling are all part of the tertiary sector.

3. Give an example of how the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors depend on each other.

Answer:
An example of how all three sectors are connected could be:

• A farmer (Primary sector) grows cotton.
• The cotton is sent to a textile factory (Secondary sector) to make clothes.
• The clothes are then transported by trucks and sold in shops (Tertiary sector).

Flow Diagram:

1. Primary Sector (Farmer grows cotton)
2. Secondary Sector (Factory makes clothes)
3. Tertiary Sector (Transport and sell clothes)

Each sector relies on the others to function properly.