Which of the following is not an activity of the tertiary sector?
- A.Running a sugar mill
- B.Transporting goods by rail
- C.Teaching in a school
- D.Selling goods in a shop
Correct answer
Explanation
The correct answer is A, running a sugar mill. A mill turns sugarcane into sugar, that is, it changes the form of a natural product, and every such transformation belongs to the secondary or industrial sector.
Option B, transporting goods by rail, option C, teaching, and option D, retail trade are all services: none of them produces a good, and each either supports production or meets a need directly, which places them in the tertiary sector. Questions of this kind are set in both directions, asking for the odd one out or for the sector of a listed activity, and the safest method is to follow the product. Growing sugarcane is primary, milling it into sugar is secondary, and carrying, storing, financing and selling that sugar is tertiary, so the same commodity passes through all three sectors.
Read the full article: Sectors of the Indian Economy: Primary to Tertiary
Practice Questions
View allMining is classified under which sector of the economy?
- A.Primary sector
- B.Secondary sector
- C.Tertiary sector
- D.Quaternary sector
Show answer
Mining takes a product straight out of nature without changing its form, exactly as farming, fishing and forestry do, and every activity of that kind is placed in the primary sector.
Read the full explanation →Which sector of the economy is also known as the service sector?
- A.Primary sector
- B.Secondary sector
- C.Tertiary sector
- D.Public sector
Show answer
It produces no goods at all; it provides services such as transport, storage, communication, trade, banking, insurance, education, health care and administration, which is why it is commonly called the service sector.
Read the full explanation →Disguised unemployment is most commonly found in which sector in India?
- A.Agriculture
- B.Information technology
- C.Banking
- D.Mining
Show answer
On a small family holding every member of the household may work on the land even though the work needs far fewer hands; if some of them were withdrawn, total output would not fall.
Read the full explanation →How many days of wage employment in a financial year does MGNREGA guarantee to a rural household?
- A.50 days
- B.100 days
- C.150 days
- D.200 days
Show answer
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, passed in 2005, guarantees one hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
Read the full explanation →Which sector employs the largest share of India's workforce?
- A.Primary sector
- B.Secondary sector
- C.Tertiary sector
- D.Quaternary sector
Show answer
Agriculture and its allied activities still give work to the largest number of Indians, even though the sector's contribution to national income is far smaller than that share of employment would suggest.
Read the full explanation →