2. The Primary Sector

What activities are included in the primary sector?

• Investigation and development

• Finanacial and educative services

• Agriculture, livestock farming, silviculture and fishing

• Construction and manufacturing

There are more population working in the primary sector in underdeveloped countries than in developed ones

• True

• False

___1___ only produce food to cover their needs, while ___2___ produce food to sell it

• 1.- Subsistence economies

  2.- Market economies

• 1.- Market economies

  2.- Subsistence economies

• 1.- Organic economies

  2.- Capitalist economies

• 1.- Traditional economies

  2.- Capitalist economies

What kind of settlement is the image showing?

• Dispersed

• Concentrated

• Interspersed

What kind of field is the image showing?

• Small, irregular and closed

• Small, regular and closed

• Medieum-sized, regular and open

• Small, regular and open

What kind of agriculture is the image showing?

• Polyculture

• Monoculture

• Intensive

• Extensive

Which of the followings are characteristics of modern agriculture?

• It is also known as subsistence agriculture

• It is also known as commercial agriculture

• It uses chemical products and machinery

• All answers are correct

What agrarian system is the image showing?

• Slash-and-burn agriculture

• Sedentary dryland agriculture

• Irrigated monsoon agriculture

• Industrial agriculture

What are the advantages of sedentary dryland agriculture?

• The soil is not exhausted

• It allows to establish a permanent settlement

• It allows two or three yearly crops

• It doesn't need fertilisers

Where can we find irrigated monsoon agriculture?

• South and South East Asia

• South America

• Tropical areas of Africa

• Europe and Asia