This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Geography > Class 12 Geography Chapter 5 Primary Activities – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Geography Chapter 5 Primary Activities Quiz 1 (57 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. People engaged inprimary activities are also called as A) Red collar. B) White collar. C) Blue collar. D) Gold collar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red collar. 2. Consider the following statements-i. ensure water security through per capita availability of water in the countryii. People in different regions of India had practised the traditional knowledge of water conservation and management to ensure water availability. Which programme are they indicating to? A) Arvary Pani Sansad. B) Jal kranti Abhiyan. C) Neeru Meeru. D) Haryali. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jal kranti Abhiyan. 3. Which among the following is NOT the part of watershed development? A) Neeru Meeru. B) Haryali. C) Narmada bachao andolan. D) Arvary Pani Sansad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narmada bachao andolan. 4. Name of the materials that can be converted by manufacture or processing, into a new and useful product. A) Natural materials. B) Agriculture. C) Livestock. D) Raw materials. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Raw materials. 5. ..... Is famous for the production of citrus fruits like oranges grapes olives figs etc A) Mediterranean agriculture. B) Plantation agriculture. C) Cooperative farming. D) Dairy farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mediterranean agriculture. 6. Type of industry that involves extracting or refining natural resources, such as mining, agriculture, forestry, and fishing. A) Primary activities. B) Secondary activities. C) Primary industries. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary activities. 7. What are the factors which affect mining activity A) Size and grade of mineral. B) Technology available and used. C) Labour and transport cost. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. In which of the following types of agriculture is the farming of citrus fruit very important? A) Market gardening. B) Plantation agriculture. C) Mediterranean agriculture. D) Co-operative farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mediterranean agriculture. 9. Primary economic activities include A) Lumbering. B) Animal husbandry. C) Hunting and gathering. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 10. Transhumance is the practice in which herders move to ..... in summers and to ..... in winter. A) Mountains, valley. B) Plains, valley. C) Mountains, valley. D) Plateau, plains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mountains, valley. 11. Which is the most primitive type of primary activity. A) Lumbering. B) Hunting and gathering. C) Crop cultivation. D) Animal husbandry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hunting and gathering. 12. Which of the tribes practise Transhumance? A) Bakarwals. B) Masai. C) Pygmies. D) Red Indians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bakarwals. 13. Type of agriculture that uses canals or other irrigation systems that allow two harvests per year? A) Subsistence. B) Commercial. C) Intensive. D) Extensive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intensive. 14. Temperate grasslands in Eurasia is called as A) Pampass. B) Velds. C) Steppes. D) Prairies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Steppes. 15. The gathering is practised in: A) Amazon Basin. B) Hwang ho basin. C) Ganga Basin. D) Nile river basin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amazon Basin. 16. Type of livestock farming where there are large areas of land and cattle feeds from the grasslands provided by the environment? A) Intensive. B) Extensive. C) Personal use. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extensive. 17. Which one of the following is not a plantation crop? A) Rubber, banana. B) Tea, coffee. C) Sugarcane, cotton. D) Maize, millet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maize, millet. 18. We can practice forestry in Qatar, Iran and Arabia Saudi A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. Shifting cultivation in North East India is also called as A) Jhuming cultivation. B) Milpa. C) Ladang. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jhuming cultivation. 20. This cattle is the most produced in Mexico A) Bovine. B) Ovine. C) Porcine. D) Poultry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bovine. 21. Type of agriculture that depends on rainfall? A) Subsistence. B) Extensive. C) Intensive. D) Commercial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extensive. 22. Agriculture in Which crop cultivation and animal husbandry is done simultaneously is called as A) Dairy farming. B) Plantation agriculture. C) Mixed farming. D) Nomadic herding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mixed farming. 23. Agriculture is practiced in cold climates A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 24. This is the country that practices fishing the most A) Mexico. B) Indonesia. C) USA. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) China. 25. Truck farming is a part of A) Market gardening and horticulture. B) Dairy farming. C) Animal husbandry. D) Mixed farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Market gardening and horticulture. 26. What is the mean area of shifting cultivation for tribal people. A) Tropical Africa and South America. B) Australia. C) Central North America. D) Western Indian subcontinent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tropical Africa and South America. 27. Free fishing is when every country stays inside its limit of territory, which is up to 370, 000 kms or 200 nautical miles of water starting from the coast. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 28. The main cause for people to practice intensive subsistence agriculture is A) Availability of land in abundance. B) High population pressure on land. C) Better technical know how. D) Availability of machinery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High population pressure on land. 29. What are Fazendas? A) Large size rice fields in India. B) Large coffee plantations in Brazil. C) Large size rubber plantation in Malaysia. D) Large size banana plantation in Sri Lanka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Large coffee plantations in Brazil. 30. The facility of quick transportation refrigeration and pasteurization is very important in A) Mixed farming. B) Mediterranean. C) Cooperative farming. D) Dairy farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dairy farming. 31. Intensive subsistence agriculture is dominated by wet paddy cultivation in A) South and southeast Asia. B) Central North Africa. C) Australia and New Zealand. D) North America. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South and southeast Asia. 32. From all the animals, talking about farming, we can get A) Wool. B) Milk. C) Meet. D) Meat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meat. 33. Which one group of country is correct regarding commercial livestock rearing A) New Zealand Australia Argentina. B) Pakistan Afghanistan Iran. C) Japan South Korea Philippines. D) Canada Greenland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Zealand Australia Argentina. 34. Which one type of agriculture amongst the following is also called 'slash and bum agriculture'? A) Mixed farming. B) Extensive subsistence agriculture. C) Primitive subsistence agriculture. D) Extensive commercial grain cultivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primitive subsistence agriculture. 35. Which one of the following does not follow monoculture? A) Mixed farming. B) Dairy farming. C) Plantation agriculture. D) Commercial grain farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mixed farming. 36. Why are they called primary activities? A) Because they come before the secondary activities. B) Because they come from the word primary. C) Because they create the building blocks for other industries. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because they create the building blocks for other industries. 37. Reason for the breaks in monsoon A) High pollution levels. B) Change in direction of winds. C) Weak low pressures in Arabian sea. D) High pressures in Bay of Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weak low pressures in Arabian sea. 38. Type of livestock farming where the families practice livestock farming to satisfy their own needs of milk, meat and eggs? A) Intensive. B) Extensive. C) Personal use. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personal use. 39. Name the seasonal migration practiced by Gujjars, Bakarwals, Gaddis and Bhotiyas of the Himalayan region. A) Transportation. B) Subsistence agriculture. C) Transhumance. D) Yak trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transhumance. 40. The model of KOLKHOZ which was introduced in erstwhile Soviet Union to improve the efficiency of agriculture is an example of A) Collective farming. B) Cooperative farming. C) Commercial livestock rearing. D) Dairy farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collective farming. 41. Which one of the following has the highest replenishable ground water in the country A) Indus. B) Ganga. C) Brahmaputra. D) Krishna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ganga. 42. Fishing can modify the gastronomy of the country that practices it A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 43. Forestry is very protitable A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 44. Which type of mining use shaft method to extract mineral A) Open cast mining. B) Underground mining. C) Both. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Underground mining. 45. Growing of flowers is called: A) Truck farming. B) Horticulture. C) Sericulture. D) Floriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Floriculture. 46. Into how many categories is the livestock farming divided? A) 4. B) 3. C) 2. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 47. Forestry can't cause several environmental problems A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 48. Which one of the following comes under primitive subsistence activity A) Nomadic herding. B) Plantation agriculture. C) Dairy farming. D) Commercial livestock rearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nomadic herding. 49. What is an economic activity A) Reading a book. B) Helping someone. C) Playing cricket. D) Earning a livelihood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earning a livelihood. 50. Type of agriculture where crops are mainly sold to different buyer, national and international? A) Intensive. B) Extensive. C) Subsistence. D) Commercial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commercial. 51. In which one of the following regions is extensive commercial grain cultivation not practised? A) Amazon Basin. B) European Steppes. C) American Canadian prairies. D) Pampas of Argentina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amazon Basin. 52. Bark of Cinchona tree is used for making: A) Rubber. B) Quinine. C) Tamin. D) Gum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quinine. 53. Cooperative farming became very famous in A) Netherlands. B) Denmark. C) India. D) Brazil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denmark. 54. Temperate grasslands in North America is called as A) Prairies. B) Steppe. C) Downs. D) Velds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prairies. 55. Type of livestock farming where there are processed food is given to animals and they are raised in places with advanced technology in order to increase their production? A) Intensive. B) Extensive. C) Personal use. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intensive. 56. In which one of the following countries co-operative farming was the most successful experiment? A) Denmark. B) Russia. C) USA. D) Sri Lanka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denmark. 57. Mediterranean type of climate is characterized by A) Rainfall in winter season. B) Rainfall in summer season. C) Blowing of hot winds. D) Frequent droughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rainfall in winter season. Related QuizzesArt Humanities QuizzesClass 12 QuizzesClass 12 Geography Chapter 1 Human Geography Nature And Scope QuizClass 12 Geography Chapter 10 Disaster Management QuizClass 12 Geography Chapter 2 Population And Human Settlements QuizClass 12 Geography Chapter 3 Human Development QuizClass 12 Geography Chapter 4 Transport And Communication QuizClass 12 Geography Chapter 6 Secondary Activities QuizClass 12 Geography Chapter 7 Tertiary And Quaternary Activities QuizClass 12 Geography Chapter 8 Regional Development Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books