Selected Economic Activities
Geography · 50 practice questions
Types of economic activity (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary); agriculture (types, systems, factors, problems); manufacturing industries (types, locational factors, distribution, importance, problems of industrialization in tropical Africa); transportation and communication; world trade (factors, patterns, major commodities); tourism (definition, importance, location, problems, solutions).
- Identify and differentiate types of economic activity.
- Assess the importance and problems of agriculture and manufacturing as economic activities.
- Identify factors of industrial location.
- Differentiate modes of transportation/communication and assess their economic importance.
- Relate factors to the pattern of world trade.
- Analyse tourism as an economic activity and identify its problems and solutions.
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- Practice question 1
Fair trade practices in world trade aim to ensure that producers, particularly in developing countries, receive
- A.the lowest possible compensation for their goods
- B.fair compensation for their goods
- C.no compensation of any kind for their goods
- D.a factor entirely unrelated to compensation or payment
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B. fair compensation for their goods
Fair trade is specifically aimed at ensuring producers, especially in developing countries, receive fair compensation.
- Practice question 2
Shifting cultivation is a traditional farming system in which land is cultivated for a period and then
- A.left fallow to recover its fertility
- B.converted permanently into non-agricultural, industrial land
- C.immediately and permanently abandoned, with no future use at all
- D.continuously cultivated without any rest period whatsoever
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A. left fallow to recover its fertility
Shifting cultivation specifically allows land to rest (lie fallow) so its fertility can naturally recover before reuse.
- Practice question 3
Forestry, as an economic activity, involves the management and harvesting of forest resources, including
- A.a resource entirely unrelated to forests or timber
- B.only mineral resources found beneath forested land
- C.timber and other related products
- D.no resource of any kind, since forestry involves no actual harvesting
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C. timber and other related products
Forestry is specifically centred on managing and harvesting forest resources like timber and related products.
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