Chapter 7 Tertiary and Quaternary Activities Solutions
Question - 1 : - Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below:
1.(i) Which one of the following is a tertiary activity?
Answer - 1 : -
(a) Farming
(b) Trading
(c) Weaving
(d) Hunting
Answer
(b) Trading
Question - 2 : - Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below:
1.(ii) Which one of the following activities is NOT a secondary sector activity?
Answer - 2 : -
(a) Iron Smelting
(b) Catching Fish
(c) Making Garments
(d) Basket Weaving
Answer
(b) Catching Fish
Question - 3 : - Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below:
1.(iii) Which one of the following sectors provides most of the employment in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata?
Answer - 3 : -
(a) Primary
(b) Secondary
(c) Quaternary
(d) Service
Answer
(d) Service
Question - 4 : - Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below:
1.(iv) Jobs that involve high degrees and level of innovations are known as:
Answer - 4 : -
(a) Secondary activities
(b) Quaternary activities
(c) Quinary activities
(d) Primary activities
Answer
(c) Quinary activities
Question - 5 : - Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below:
1.(v) Which one of the following activities is related to quaternary sector?
Answer - 5 : -
(a) Manufacturing computers
(b) Paper and Raw pulp production
(c) University teaching
(d) Printing books
Answer
(c) University teaching
Question - 6 : - Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below:
1.(vi) Which one of the following statements is not true?
Answer - 6 : -
(a) Outsourcing reduces costs and increases efficiency
(b) At times engineering and manufacturing jobs can also be outsourced
(c) BPOs have better business opportunities as compared to KPOs.
(d) There may be dissatisfaction among job seekers in the countries that outsource the job.
Answer
(c) BPOs have better business opportunities as compared to KPOs.
Question - 7 : - Explain retail-trading service.
Answer - 7 : -
This is the business activity concerned with the sale of goods directly to the consumers. Most of the retail trading take place in fixed establishments or stores solely devoted to selling. It includes small shops, consumer cooperatives, chain stores, departmental stores. Street peddling, handcarts, trucks, door-to-door, mail-order, telephone, automatic vending machines and internet are examples of non-store retail selling.
Question - 8 : - Describe quaternary services.
Answer - 8 : -
Quaternary activities centre around research, development and may be seen as an advanced form of services involving specialised knowledge, technical skills, and administrative competence. The Quaternary Sector along with the Tertiary Sector has replaced all primary and secondary employment as the basis for economic growth.
Question - 9 : - Name the fastest emerging countries of medical tourism in the world.
Answer - 9 : -
India, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia are the fastest emerging countries of medical tourism in the world.
Question - 10 : - What is digital divide?
Answer - 10 : -
Opportunities emerging from the Information and Communication Technology based development is unevenly distributed across the globe. There are wide ranging economic, political and social differences among countries. Digital divide is the difference in opportunities available to people at different places arising because of differential availability of information and communication infrastructure.