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CLASS 6 · SOCIAL STUDIES · CHAPTER 14

Economic Activities Around Us

Simple answers to all three end-of-chapter questions about the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors and how they depend on one another.

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Textbook pages 203

Question 1

What is the primary sector? How is it different from the secondary sector? Give two examples.

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Primary: gets raw materials from nature. Secondary: transforms raw materials into goods or structures.

Answer

Examples: cotton farming is primary; cloth making is secondary.

Question 2

How is the secondary sector dependent on the tertiary sector? Explain with examples.

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Factories need services such as transport, banking, communication, electricity and repairs.

Answer

Tertiary services help secondary industries produce and sell goods.

Question 3

Give one example of interdependence between the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. Explain it with a flow chart.

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Sugarcane farm → transport → sugar mill → transport and shop → customer.

Answer

Primary, secondary and tertiary activities connect to bring a product to people.

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