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Economic Activities

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are economic activities?

a)

rules in a game

b)

a sport

c)

how a government is run

d)

ways in which people make a living

2.

Uses natural resources or raw materials

a)

Primary Industry

b)

Secondary Industry

c)

Tertiary Industry

3.

What is a tertiary industry?

a)

Provides a service for people

b)

Manufactures products

c)

Collects or produces natural resources

d)

Research and technology

4.

What is a primary industry?

a)

Employ people to make things.

b)

Employ people to collect or produce natural resources

c)

provide a service for people

d)

Research and technology

5.

Which belongs in the tertiary industry?

a)

coffee bean

b)

steel worker

c)

nurse

d)

farmer

6.

which belongs in the secondary industry?

a)

cotton

b)

shoe factory

c)

coal

d)

sales clerk

7.

Which belongs in the primary industry?

a)

cotton

b)

sweater

c)

shoe factory

d)

sales clerk

8.

Goods and services are exchanged (or sold)

a)

Primary Industry

b)

Secondary Industry

c)

Tertiary Industry

9.

Which level of development is a country where most people work at the subsistence level?

a)

More Developed

b)

Newly Industrialized

c)

Less Developed

10.

Countries where many people work in research and development are in this level of economic development.

a)

More Developed

b)

Newly Industrialized

c)

Less Developed

11.
Which type of economic activity processes and distributes information?
a)
Primary
b)
Secondary
c)
Tertiary
d)
Quaternary
12.
Choose the correct examples of a primary activity.
a)
truck driver, doctor, store clerk, restaurant
b)
manufacturing and construction
c)
mining, agriculture, fishing
d)
research and data processing
13.
Choose the correct examples of a secondary activity.
a)
truck driver, doctor, store clerk, restaurant
b)
manufacturing and construction
c)
mining, agriculture, fishing
d)
research and data processing
14.
Choose the correct examples of a tertiary activity.
a)
truck driver, doctor, store clerk, restaurant
b)
manufacturing and construction
c)
mining, agriculture, fishing
d)
research and data processing
15.

Which always comes first - Agriculture and Resources OR Manufacturing?

a)

Agriculture & Resources

b)

Manufacturing

16.

Which always comes first - Retail OR Manufacturing?

a)

Retail

b)

Manufacturing

17.

Services offer us such things as

a)

Trade, health, fishing.

b)

Trade, health, craft industry.

c)

Trade, tourism, transport.

18.

All manufacturing, processing, and construction jobs lie within this sector:

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

c)

Tertiary

d)

Quaternary

19.

How does the T-shirt industry proceed?

a)
  1. Design and manufacture 2. Making the fabric 3. Selling 4. Growing cotton.
b)
  1. Selling 2. Growing cotton 3. Design and manufacture 4. Making the fabric.
c)
  1. Growing cotton 2. Making the fabric 3. Design and manufacture 4. Selling
20.

Country where there are factories that make products mainly for export are in which level of economic development.

a)

More Developed

b)

Newly Industrialized

c)

Less Developed

21.

Which one is the odd one out

a)

Fishing Trawler worker

b)

Computer Software Designer

c)

Lumberjack

d)

Quarry Worker

22.

A quota refers to...

a)

a ban of endangered fish

b)

a tax on fish

c)

a limit on the amount of fish caught

d)

the number of fish a fisherman caught

23.

Using resources in a way that ensures they will be there for future generations is called?

a)

Stewardship

b)

Interdependence

c)

Sustainability

d)

Over Exploitation

24.

Intellectual activities

a)

Tertiary

b)

Secondary

c)

Primary

d)

Quaternary

25.

Which of the following is NOT a factor in changes in sector employment?

a)

Globalisation

b)

Technological advancements

c)

Overexploitation of natural resources

d)

Tectonic processes