STD 7 Social Science: Chapter 05 Economic Sources - Questions and Answers | Teaching Manual


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Chapter 05: Economic Sources - Textual Questions and Answers & Model Questions
1. What are economic activities?
Answer: Activities that generate income are called economic activities.

2. What are the economic activities around us? How are they classified?
Answer:
1. Primary or Agricultural sector.
2. Secondary or Industrial sector.
3. Tertiary or Service sector.
Primary Sector
The sector involving activities that make direct use of natural resources Is called primary sector. This sector is also called the agricultural sector.
Secondary Sector
There are economic activities that manufacture goods making use of products of primary sector as the raw material. They are also called industrial activities.
Tertiary Sector.
The Tertiary sector collects and distributes products of primary and secondary sectors. This sector is called the service sector.

3. What Is meant by food security?
 Answer: Food security exists when all people at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient, nutritious food for active and healthy life.

4. Which sector includes all the service sectors?
Answer: Tertiary sector

5. The sector that gives more importance to agriculture
Answer: Primary sector

6. Which is the fair price centre in Kerala that gives vegetables?
Answer: Horticorp
 
7. The centre that gives kerosene at a fair price :
Answer: Civil supplies outlet

8. Among the benefactors 1/3 must be women which poverty alleviation programme suggests this?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

9. What are the challenges faced by the food production sector in India?
Answer:
* Crop failures due to natural calamities
* Using agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes.
* Reducing the rate of subsidies
* climate changes.
* Unable to ensure Crop Insurance

10. Civil supplies outlet stands for the common man. justify.
Answer: Essential food grains are sold in the Public Distribution Centres at and fair price. From there the poor people can get essential commodities. This system can control the price rise.

11. Which are the agencies supplying essential commodities at a fair price in Kerala?
Answer: Public Distribution centres, Supply co, Supermarkets, Maveli store, Triveni supermarkets etc.

12. Which is the poverty alleviation programme that supply of 10 kilograms of rice to people who are above 65 years of age?
Answer: Annapoorna

13. In which sector do you make a new product by using various goods?
Answer: Secondary sector

14. Write a note about Central Statistical Office (CSO)
Answer: An institution that works under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) 
Important Functions
• Coordinate and analyse data.
• Collect data of all sectors and process it for planning purposes.
• Estimate national income using data

15. What is mean by Self-sufficiency in food?
Answer: If a country is able to produce sufficient food to meet with the
requirements of its people, it can be considered as self-sufficient in food.

16. Write a note about Public Distribution System (PDS)
Answer: Public Distribution System provides food items and other
essential commodities to people at reasonable prices and the entire
chain of such organisations is controlled by the government.

17. Write a note about Food Security Act
Answer: Parliament passed the bill in 2013.
Features
• Food security is the legal obligation of the government
• Ensure adequate, nutritious and high-quality food items at a fair price to all people.
• Availability of food is a legal right of citizens.

18. Prepare a note on the poverty alleviation projects of the central government
Answer:
Swarnajayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana
•Beneficial to the unemployed in urban areas 
•Encourages self-employment

Mid Day Meal Programme
•Beneficial to the students up to 8th standard in all government and aided
schools
•Ensures nutritious food through schools

Annapoorna
•Beneficial to people who are above 65 years of age and having no income
•Free supply of 10 kg of rice through ration shops

National Rural Livelihood Mission
• Provides assistance to self-help groups
• Provides financial aid through bank loans and subsidies

Andhyodaya Anna Yojana
• Beneficial to the poorest families below the poverty line
• Supply of 35 kg of rice and wheat at the rate of Rs.3/- and Rs.2/- per month respectively.

Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Programme
• Beneficial to those who are healthy and willing to work
• Guarantees 100 days of employment
• Persons of the age 18 and above can register
• 1/3 of the beneficiaries should be women

Integrated Child Development Programme
• Implemented through Anganwadies
• Children below 6 years of age, pregnant women, lactating mothers are the beneficiaries
• Ensures a fixed quantity of nutritious food

19. Classifies the economic activities into primary, secondary and tertiary
sectors
20. what is poverty?
As per the recommendation of the Planning Commission, the people in
urban areas whose intake of nutritious food is less than 2100 calories and
those in rural areas whose intake of nutritious food is less than 2400
calories experience poverty. The Economic Survey 2011-12 states that
the percentage of poverty in India is 29.8 - Bihar with the highest of 53.5%,
Himachal Pradesh with the lowest of 9.5%. Kerala has a poverty rate of 12%.






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