Geography: primary activities

What is an economic activity

• Helping someone

• Playing cricket

• Earning a livelihood

• Reading a book

Primary economic activities include

• Lumbering

• Animal husbandry

• Hunting and gathering

• All of the above

Which is the most primitive type of primary activity.

• Lumbering

• Hunting and gathering

• Crop cultivation

• Animal husbandry

People engaged inprimary activities are also called as

• Blue collar

• Red collar

• White collar

• Gold collar

Which one of the following comes under primitive subsistence activity

• Nomadic herding

• Commercial livestock rearing

• Plantation agriculture

• Dairy farming

Transhumance is the practice in which herders move to ...........in summers and to .............in winter.

• Mountains , valley

• Plains , valley

• Mountains , valley

• Plateau, plains

Which one group of country is correct regarding commercial livestock rearing

• New Zealand Australia Argentina

• Pakistan Afghanistan Iran

• Japan South Korea Philippines

• Canada Greenland

What is the mean area of shifting cultivation for tribal people.

• Tropical Africa and South America

• Australia

• Central North America

• Western Indian subcontinent

The main cause for people to practice intensive subsistence agriculture is

• Availability of land in abundance

• High population pressure on land

• Better technical know how

• Availability of machinery

Intensive subsistence agriculture is dominated by wet paddy cultivation in

• South and southeast Asia

• Central North Africa

• Australia and New Zealand

• North America