{"id":117700,"date":"2022-04-13T16:31:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T11:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=117700"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T11:01:04","slug":"chapter-7-tertiary-and-quaternary-activities-questions-and-answers-ncert-solutions-for-class-12-geography-fundamentals-of-human-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/chapter-7-tertiary-and-quaternary-activities-questions-and-answers-ncert-solutions-for-class-12-geography-fundamentals-of-human-geography","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 7 – Tertiary and Quaternary Activities Questions and Answers: NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Geography: (Fundamentals of Human Geography)"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below:
\nQuestion 1.(i)
\nWhich one of the following is a tertiary activity?
\n(a) Farming
\n(b) Trading
\n(c) Weaving
\n(d) Hunting<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\n(b) Trading<\/h3>\n

Question 1.(ii)
\nWhich one of the following activities is NOT a secondary sector activity?
\n(a) Iron Smelting
\n(b) Catching Fish
\n(c) Making Garments
\n(d) Basket Weaving<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\n(b) Catching Fish<\/h3>\n

Question 1.(iii)
\nWhich one of the following sectors provides most of the employment in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata?
\n(a) Primary
\n(b) Secondary
\n(c) Quaternary
\n(d) Service<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\n(d) Service<\/h3>\n

Question 1.(iv)
\nJobs that involve high degrees and level of innovations are known as:
\n(a) Secondary activities
\n(b) Quaternary activities
\n(c) Quinary activities
\n(d) Primary activities<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\n(c) Quinary activities<\/h3>\n

Question 1.(v)
\nWhich one of the following activities is related to quaternary sector?
\n(a) Manufacturing computers
\n(b) Paper and Raw pulp production
\n(c) University teaching
\n(d) Printing books<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\n(c) University teaching<\/h3>\n

Question 1.(vi)
\nWhich one of the following statements is not true?
\n(a) Outsourcing reduces costs and increases efficiency
\n(b) At times engineering and manufacturing jobs can also be outsourced
\n(c) BPOs have better business opportunities as compared to KPOs.
\n(d) There may be dissatisfaction among job seekers in the countries that outsource the job.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\n(c) BPOs have better business opportunities as compared to KPOs.<\/h3>\n

2. Answer the following questions in about 30 words:
\nQuestion 2.(i)
\nExplain retail-trading service.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThis 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.<\/h3>\n

Question 2.(ii)
\nDescribe quaternary services.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nQuaternary 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.<\/h3>\n

Question 2.(iii)
\nName the fastest emerging countries of medical tourism in the world.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nIndia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia are the fastest emerging countries of medical tourism in the world.<\/h3>\n

Question 2.(iv)
\nWhat is digital divide?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nOpportunities 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.<\/h3>\n

3. Answer the following questions in not more than 150 words:
\nQuestion 3.(i)
\nDiscuss the significance and growth of the service sector in modern economic development.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nServices occur at many different levels. Some are geared to industry, some to people; and some to both industry and people, e.g. the transport systems. Low-order services, such as grocery, shops and laundries, are more common and widespread than high-order services or more specialized ones like those of accountants, consultants and physicians. Services are provided to individual consumers who can afford to pay for them. For example the gardener, the launderers and the barber do primarily physical labour. Teacher, lawyers, physicians, musicians and others perform mental labour.
\nService sector is well developed in regions where there is high technological and educational know how. There is an increase in international trade of services. Services once generated can be easily availed by many and provide high monetary value in terms of wages, service charges etc. As a country develops, more and more people shift to tertiary activities and the share of tertiary activities in the GDP is even faster. Service sector provides the most lump some amount of foreign exchange and income for the country. Therefore service sector is a major contributor in the modern economic development.<\/h3>\n

Question 3.(ii)
\nExplain in detail the significance of transport and communication services.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nTransport is a service or facility by which persons, manufactured goods, and property are physically carried from one location to another. It is an organised industry created to satisfy man\u2019s basic need of mobility. Modern society requires speedy and efficient transport systems to assist in the production, distribution and consumption of goods. At every stage in this complex system, the value of the material is significantly enhanced by transportation. Transport activities are essential to carry out trade services. Transportation is also essential for defence purpose. It links different parts of country with each other and with other countries as well, which increases national and global linkage. It also links rural areas with urban areas and helps in ushering development even in rural and backward areas. It makes more places suitable for setting up industries and hence helps, in increasing job opportunities.
\nCommunication services involve the transmission of words and messages, facts and ideas. Human beings have used different methods long-distance communications of which the telegraph and the telephone were important. Even today, the telephone is the most commonly used mode. In developing countries, the use of cell phones, made possible by satellites, is important for rural connectivity. These allow large quantities of data to be transmitted rapidly, securely, and are virtually error-free. With the digitization of information in the 1990\u2019s, telecommunication slowly merged with computers to form integrated networks termed as Internet.
\nCommunication through satellites emerged as a new area in communication technology. These have rendered the unit cost and time of communication invariant in terms of distance. Cyberspace exists everywhere. It may be in an office, sailing boat, flying plane and virtually anywhere. As billions use the Internet each year, cyberspace will expand the contemporary economic and social space of humans through e-mail, e-commerce, e-learning and e-governance. Internet together with fax, television and radio will be accessible to more and more people cutting across place and time. It is these modern communication systems along with transportation that has made the concept of global village a reality.<\/h3>\n

Very Short Answer Type Questions<\/h2>\n

Question 1.
\nDefine tertiary activity.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nTertiary activities are related to the service sector. Man power is an important component of service sector as most of the tertiary activities are performed by skilled labour, professionally trained experts and consultants. These services require theoretically knowledge and practical training.<\/h3>\n

Question 2.
\nWhat are the types of tertiary activities?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe types of tertiary activites are:
\nTrade and commerce
\nTransport
\nCommunication
\nServices<\/h3>\n

Question 3.
\nDefine trade.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nTrade is essentially buying and selling of items produced elsewhere. All the services in wholesale and retail trading or commerce sire specifically intended for profit.<\/h3>\n

Question 4.
\nWhat are trading centres?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe towns and cities where buying and selling of goods take place are known as trading centres.<\/h3>\n

Question 5.
\nGive examples of rural marketing centres.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nExamples of rural marketing centres involve mandis, periodic markets, which may be weekly, biweekly, monthly, annually.<\/h3>\n

Question 6.
\nWhat are periodic markets?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nPeriodic markets in rural areas are found where there are no regular markets, and local periodic, markets are organized at different time intervals may be weekly, biweekly etc. These markets are held on specified dates and move from one place to another.<\/h3>\n

Question 7.
\nWhat is the typical characteristic of urban marketing centre?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nUrban marketing centres have widely specialised urban services providing ordinary goods and services to specialized goods as per the demand.<\/h3>\n

Question 8.
\nWhat is retail service?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nRetail trading is the business activity concerned with the sale of goods directly to the consumers.<\/h3>\n

Question 9.
\nDefine consumer cooperative, departmental stores & chain stores.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nConsumer cooperatives: A cooperative business which is owned by its consumers for mutual sharing of benefit, after setting aside money for investment, is known as consumer cooperative. Consumer cooperatives often take form of the retail outlets which are owned and managed by their consumers.
\nDepartmental stores: Departmental stores are large retail establishments which have large collection of variety of goods, all organised under specific department heads. A distinct feature of this kind of retail establishment is the organizing of separate departments, under same roof to facilitate buying, customer service, merchandising and control.
\nChain Stores: These are retail stores owned by a single firm and spread over vast geographical areas across nation or worldwide. Chain stores are usually characterized by similar service and infrastructural environment, involving similar architecture, store desigfe, layout and choice of products.<\/h3>\n

Question 10.
\nWhat is wholesale trading service?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nWholesale trading constitutes bulk business through numerous intermediary merchants and supply houses and not through retail stores. Wholesalers often extend credit to retail stores to such an extent that the retailer operates very largely on the wholesaler\u2019s capital.<\/h3>\n

Question 11.
\nDefine transport & communication.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nTransport is a service or facility by which people, materials and manufactured goods are physically carried from one location to another. Communication services involve the transmission of words and messages, facts and ideas.<\/h3>\n

Question 12.
\nGive examples of informal service sector.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nSome examples of informal service sector are those people helping in domestic services, eg. Housekeepers, cooks, gardeners, etc. On such example of informal service is Mumbai\u2019s dabbawalas.<\/h3>\n

Question 13.
\nWhich is the world\u2019s single largest tertiary activity?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nTourism is the world\u2019s single largest tertiary activity in total registered jobs and total revenue.<\/h3>\n

Question 14.
\nDefine Quaternary activity.<\/h2>\n

Answer:.
\nQuaternary activities are knowledge oriented. They involve the collection, production and dissemination of information. They centre around research, development and may be seen as advanced form of services involving specialized knowledge and technical skill.<\/h3>\n

Question 15.
\nGive examples of services from Quaternary sector.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nSome examples of services from quaternary sector involves: mutual fund managers, tax consultants, software developers, teachers, hospital and doctor offices, accountants, etc.<\/h3>\n

Question 16.
\nDefine Quinary activity.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nQuinary activities are services that focus on the creation, rearrangement and interpretation of new and existing ideas; data interpretation and the use and evaluation of new technologies. People involved are referred to as gold collar workers.<\/h3>\n

Question 17.
\nName three types of activities included in service sector.<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nThe three types of activities are:
\nTertiary activities
\nQuaternary activities
\nQuinary activities.<\/h3>\n

Question 18.
\nWhat do you mean by isochrone lines?<\/h2>\n

Answer:
\nIsochrones lines are drawn on map to join places equal in terms of the time taken to reach them.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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