Class 10 Social Science MCQs Chapter 2 Sectors
of Indian Economy
1. GDP stands for Gross
Domestic Product. What does it show? Pick up the correct statement given below:
(a) It shows how big is the economy of a country in a given year in terms of
its total output.
(b) It shows what the total product of a country in a given year without
counting the country’s total resources.
(c) It shows the number of people involved in production in a particular year.
(d) It shows the total value of trade trans-actions of a country in a
particular year.
Answer
Answer: a
2. Employment figures of
a country are based on data collected from 5-yearly survey on employment and
unemployment. Which organisation conducts this survey?
(a) NSSO—National Sample Survey Organisation
(b) NREGA 2005—National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005
(c) ILO — International Labour Organisation
(d) Census of India
Answer
Answer: b
3. Identify the natural product from the list of items given below:
(a) Textile
(b) Wheat flour
(c) Cotton
(d) Tomtao sauce
Answer
Answer: c
4. Which of the following
examples does not fall under unorganized sector?
(a) A farmer irrigating his field.
(b) A daily wage labourer working for a contractor.
(c) A doctor in a hospital treating a patient.
(d) A handloom weaver working on a loom in her house.
Answer
Answer: c
5. Identify the correct
answer from the alternatives provided
Both Tisco and Reliance Industries are owned by :
(a) The government
(b) Private company
(c) A cooperative society
(d) Jointly by private companies and the govt.
Answer
Answer: c
6. NREGA (National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act of 2005) has guaranteed ………. days of employment in a
year in many districts of India. What are the correct number of days?
(a) 200 days
(b) 100 days
(c) 30 days
(d) 60 days
Answer
Answer: b
7. Choose one correct
statement from the following:
Underemployment occurs —
(a) when people are not willing to work.
(b) when people are working slowly.
(c) when people are working less than what they are capable of doing.
(d) when people are not paid for their jobs.
Answer
Answer: c
8. Which sector has
emerged as the largest producing sector in India. Select one from the following
alternatives:
(a) Secondary sector
(b) Tertiary sector
(c) Primary sector
(d) Science and Technology sector
Answer
Answer: b
9. Where will you find
the disguised unemployment most? Select the correct option from those given
below:
(a) Among agricultural workers working for small farm lands
(b) Among part-time industrial workers
(c) In most of the government offices
(d) In big private companies
Answer
Answer: a
10. How do big private
companies contribute in the development of a nation?
(a) By increasing the demands for their products through advertisements.
(b) By increasing their profits.
(c) By increasing productivity of the country in the manufacturing of
industrial goods.
(d) By providing private hospital facilities for the rich.
Answer
Answer: c
Part 2 (self test ) answers given below
Q1.
Name one type of classification of the economy?
A.
Urban
B. Rural
C. Public/private
D. state/national
Q2.
Where are the employment and non-employment figures taken from to study the
data?
A.
Real-Time Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy.
B. National Statistical Office (NSO)
C. NITI Aayog
D. Statistics information Bureau
Q3.
What are the groups of classification of an economy called?
A.
Sectors
B. Centers
C. Types
D. Categories
Q4.
When we produce a good by exploiting natural resources it is called……..?
A.
Tertiary sector
B. Primary sector
C. Service sector
D. Public sector
Q5.
Which activities come under the agriculture and related sectors?
A.
Dairy
B. Mineral excavation
C. using cotton fiber from the plant
D. Selling agricultural products in the market
Q6.
What is the secondary sector?
A.
production of a good by exploiting natural resources
B. activities in which natural products are changed into other forms through
ways of manufacturing
C. activities, by themselves, do not produce a good but they are an aid or
support for the production process.
D. Mineral excavation
Q7.
Using sugarcane as raw material, we make sugar or gur, under what sector does
this activity come?
A.
Primary
B. Private
C. Industrial
D. Tertiary
Q8.
Those activities, by themselves, do not produce a good but they are an aid or
support for the production process, are called……….?
A.
Primary
B. Private
C. Industrial
D. Tertiary
Q9.
Name one functioning activity of the Tertiary sector?
A.
goods that are produced would need to be transported by trucks or trains and
then sold in wholesale and retail shops
B. this sector gradually became associated with the different kinds of
industries
C. activities in which natural products are changed into other forms through
ways of manufacturing
D. produce a good by exploiting natural resources
Q10.
Which sector is also called the service sector?
A.
Primary
B. Public
C. Industrial
D. Tertiary
Q11.
The sum of production in the three sectors gives what is called the …………. of a
country?
A.
Gross income
B. Gross Domestic Product
C. Net Domestic Product
D. Net income
Q12.
The value of final goods and services produced in each sector during a particular
year provides the………..
A.
Average Production of the sector for that year
B. Net Production of the sector for that year
C. Total production of the sector for that year.
D. Gross production of the sector for that year
Q13.
……………gradually became the most important in total production and employment?
A.
Secondary sector
B. Tertiary sector
C. Public sector
D. Primary sector
Q14.
Which one is a primary occupation?
A.
Tailor
B. Basket weaver
C. Flower cultivator
D. Milk vendor
Q15.
Not every good (or service) that is produced and sold needs to be counted. It
makes sense only to include the ………… to get the total production?
A.
values of goods and services in production
B. final goods and services
C. adding up the actual numbers of goods
D. goods and services in the three sectors
Q16.
Give an example of an intermediate good?
A.
Woven basket
B. Chair production from wood
C. Wheat flour
D. Biscuits
Q17.
It has been noted from the histories of many, now developed, countries that at
initial stages of development, …………. sector was the most important sector of
economic activity.
A.
Public
B. Tertiary
C. Secondary
D. Primary
Q18.
As the methods of farming changed and the agriculture sector began to prosper,
most of the goods produced were ………….. from the primary sector and most people
were also employed in this sector?
A.
Synthetic products
B. Involved machines
C. Natural products
D. Mixed products
Q19.
Why did the Secondary sector later become the most important sector?
A.
People began to use many more goods that were produced in factories at cheap
rates
B. Employment increased
C. Agriculture declined
D. A & B
Q20.
In developed countries, the ………… sector has become the most important in terms
of total production.
A.
Primary
B. Industrial
C. Service
D. Public
Q21.
In the data given of GDP, which was the most productive sector in 1974?
A.
Primary
B. Tertiary
C. Secondary
D. Equal production
Q22.
The primary sector is also called…….?
A.
Service sector
B. Agriculture and related sector
C. Pre- industry sector
D. Unorganized sector
Q23.
In the data given of GDP which was the most productive sector in 2013-14?
A.
Primary
B. Tertiary
C. Secondary
D. Equal production
Q24.The
secondary sector is also called……..?
A.
Organised sector
B. Service sector
C. Industrial sector
D. Public sector
Q25.
Which sector has grown the most over forty years?
A.
Primary
B. Tertiary
C. Secondary
D. Equal production
Q26.
Which of these can be considered as basic services?
A.
Growing of wheat
B. Transport
C. Storage
D. Police station
Q27.
Greater the development of the primary and secondary sectors, ……… would be the
demand for such services?
A.
Equal
B. More
C. Less
D. Uneven
Q28.
When income levels rise, certain sections of people start demanding many more
services like………..
A.
More food
B. Hospitals
C. Defense
D. Tourism
Q29.
Over the past decade or so, certain new services such as …………. have become
important and essential?
A.
private hospitals
B. professional training
C. information and communication technology
D. Insurance
Q30.
Underemployment is hidden in contrast to someone who does not have a job and is
clearly visible as unemployed. It is also called ………………
A.
Hidden employment
B. Disguised unemployment.
C. Unstable employment
D. Less employment
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