MCQs For NCERT Class 12 Geography Chapter 7 Tertiary and Quaternary Activities

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Tertiary and Quaternary Activities Class 12 MCQ Questions with Answers

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Question. __________ is the distribution process of a retailer obtaining goods or services and selling them to customers for use. 
(A) Collecting
(B) Retailing
(C) Assessing
(D) None of the Above

Question. What constitutes bulk business through numerous intermediary merchants and supply houses and not through retail stores?
(A) Retail trading service
(B) Foreign trading service
(C) Wholesale trading service
(D) Bulk trading service

Question. Buying and selling of things is termed as : 
(A) hunting
(B) trade
(C) commerce
(D) extortion

Question. The highest level of decision makers or policy makers perform : 
(A) quaternary activities
(B) outsourcing
(C) quinary activities
(D) secondary activities

Question. ……… may direct the goods to be manufactured according to their specification. They have the ability to experiment in one store and apply it to many.
(A) Departmental stores
(B) Consumer cooperative stores
(C) Chain stores
(D) Retail stores

Question. __________sector is known in terms of the national economy as a quaternary sector of the economy. 
(A) Acknowledgment
(B) Knowledge
(C) Agriculture
(D) Manufacturing

Question. The quaternary sector along with the ________sector has replaced all primary and secondary employment as the basis for economic growth . 
(A) tertiary
(B) quinary
(C) medical
(D) primary

Question. Which one is the example of tertiary activity?
(A) Transport
(B) Agriculture
(C) Diary
(D) Iron and steel industry

Question. Tertiary activities involve commercial output of services rather than production of ……… goods.
(A) permanent
(B) commercial
(C) tangible
(D) intangible

Question. __________ travel undertaken for the purpose of recreation rather than business. 
(A) Tourism
(B) Investigation
(C) Transfer
(D) None of the Above

Question. Insurance and finance are examples of : 
(A) low order services
(B) high order services
(C) medium order services
(D) Urgent order services

Question. When outsourcing is involved in transferring of work to overseas locations, it is described by which of the following terms?
(A) Outshoring
(B) Onshoring
(C) Offshoring
(D) Homeshoring

Question. What activities results in production and distribution of goods and services? 
(A) Social activities
(B) Economic activities
(C) Political activities
(D) Medical activities

Question. Two elements involved in tertiary activities are: 
(A) production and exchange
(B) sale and purchase
(C) transport and communication
(D) All of the Above

Question. ___________is a term that refers to the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology, and those that don’t or have restricted access. 
(A) Digital divide
(B) Border divide
(C) Professional divide
(D) Individual divide

Question. _________ are business firms engaged in offering goods and services directly to consumers.
(A) Retailers
(B) Traders
(C) Buyers
(D) Teachers

Question. Scientists, researchers, administrators falls under ________ category. 
(A) Quinary
(B) Quandary
(C) Tertiary
(D) Medical

Question. _________ involves the outsourcing of core,information-related business activities. 
(A) KPO
(B) DRDO
(C) NGO
(D) CBI

Question. The ‘gold collar’ professions are: 
(A) hardly paid workers
(D) daily wages labourers
(C) highly paid executives
(D) unemployed youth

Question. Consider the following statements and choose the correct option.
I. About 40% world’s total GDP is generated by tertiary sector.
II. Tertiary sector provides over 250 million jobs worldwide.
(A) Only I is correct
(B) Only II is correct
(C) Both I and II are correct
(D) Both are incorrect

Directions : In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as:
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
(C) A is true but R is false.
(D) A is false and R is true.

Question. Assertion (A): Tourism has become the single largest activity in the total registered jobs and total revenue.
Reason (R): It not only serves the purpose of recreation but also it provides employment to many local people. 
Ans. Option (A) is correct.

Question. Assertion (A): Transport activities are essential to carry out trade services.
Reason (R): Transportation is also essential for defence purpose.

Question.  Assertion (A): Most people from colder regions expect to have warm, sunny weather for beach holidays.
Reason (R): Weather and climate have a specific and significant impact on tourism. 

Question. Assertion (A): Wholesalers act as intermediaries between retail stores and manufacturers.
Reason (R): Wholesalers also give credit to retail stores. 

Question. Assertion (A): Telecommunication is generally distance communication and it’s use is directly linked to the development of modern technology.
Reason (R): Satellite communication relays information of the earth and from space.

Question. Assertion (A): Opportunities emerging from the Information and Communication Technology based development is unevenly distributed across the globe.
Reason (R): There are wide ranging economic,political and social differences among countries.

Question. Assertion (A): Trade include provision of services in exchange of payments.
Reason (R): Trade and commerce is essentially buying and selling of items produced elsewhere. 

Question. Assertion (A): Services occur at many different levels.
Reason (R): Services are provided to individual consumers who can afford to pay for them.