Primary Activities Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers
Multiple Choice Questions:
Question 1.
Which one of the following is not a plantation crop?
(a) Coffee
(b) Sugar cane
(c) Wheat
(d) Rubber
Answer
Answer: (c) Wheat
Question 2.
In which one of the following countries co-operative farming was the most successful experiment?
(a) Russia
(b) Denmark
(c) India
(d) The Netherlands
Answer
Answer: (b) Denmark
Question 3.
Growing of flowers is called
(a) Truck farming
(b) Factory farming
(c) Mixed farming
(d) Floriculture
Answer
Answer: (d) Floriculture
Question 4.
Which one of the following types of cultivation was developed by European colonists?
(a) Kolkoz
(b) Viticulture
(c) Mixed farming
(d) Plantation
Answer
Answer: (d) Plantation
Question 5.
In which one of the following regions is extensive commercial grain cultivation not practised?
(a) American Canadian prairies
(b) European Steppes
(c) Pampas of Argentina
(d) Amazon Basin
Answer
Answer: (d) Amazon Basin
Question 6.
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
Answer
Answer: (c) Mediterranean agriculture
Question 7.
Which one type of agriculture amongst the following is also called ‘slash and burn agriculture’?
(o) Extensive subsistence agriculture
(b) Primitive subsistence agriculture
(c) Extensive commercial grain cultivation
(d) Mixed farming
Answer
Answer: (b) Primitive subsistence agriculture
Question 8.
Which one of the following does not follow monoculture?
(a) Dairy farming
(b) Mixed farming
(c) Plantation agriculture
(d) Commercial grain farming
Answer
Answer: (b) Mixed farming
Question 9.
What is used to make chewing gums other than the added flavours?
(a) Chicle
(b) Rubber
(c) Cocoa
(d) Cola
Answer
Answer: (a) Chicle
Question 10.
In which region of Alaska reindeer rearing is prevalent?
(a) Eastern regions
(b) Western regions
(c) Northern regions
(d) Southern regions
Answer
Answer: (c) Northern regions
Question 11.
Growing of grapes is called .
(a) Floriculture
(b) Viticulture
(c) Horticulture
(d) Sericulture
Answer
Answer: (b) Viticulture
Question 12.
Identify the agricultural practice introduced by Europeans in their colonies.
(a) Plantation
(b) Horticulture
(c) Kolkhoz
(d) Mixed Farming
Answer
Answer:(a) Plantation
Question 13.
Which one of the following is the largest region of commercial dairy farming?
(a) North Western Europe
(b) South Eastern Australia
(c) Canada
(d) New Zealand
Answer
Answer: (a) North Western Europe
Question 14.
Which of the following is not the other name of slash and burn agriculture?
(a) Jhuming
(b) Milpa
(c) Ladang
(d) Kolkhoz
Answer
Answer: (d) Kolkhoz
Question 15.
Which of the following is not a primary activity?
(a) Forestry
(b) Fishing
(c) Hunting
(d) Manufacturing
Answer
Answer: (d) Manufacturing
Question 16.
Which of these primary activities did the earliest humans engage in?
(a) Hunting and gathering
(b) Hunting and mining
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Only (b)
Answer
Answer: (a) Hunting and gathering
Question 17.
Which of these products are obtained from gathering activity but are market oriented and have become commercial?
(a) Quinine, Rubber, Balata, Gum
(b) Balata, Rubber, Sugar cane, Coffee
(c) Quinine, Rose, Gum, Rubber
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) Quinine, Rubber, Balata, Gum
Question 18.
Which of the following animals are not reared in the Sahara?
(a) Sheep
(b) Camel
(c) Goat
(d) Platypus
Answer
Answer: (d) Platypus
Question 19.
Name the seasonal migration practiced by Gujjars, Bakarwals, Gaddis and Bhotiyas of the Himalayan region.
(a) Yak trade
(b) Transportation
(c) Transhumance
(d) Subsistence agriculture
Answer
Answer: (c) Transhumance
Question 20.
Which of the following is not true as a feature of plantation agriculture?
(a) Large landholdings called estates
(b) Huge capital investment
(c) Dominance of wheat and paddy crops
(d) Scientific method of cultivation
Answer
Answer: (c) Dominance of wheat and paddy crops
Question 21.
This kind of farming is successfully practiced in Demark, Belgium, Sweden and Italy.
(a) Mediterranean agriculture
(b) Plantation agriculture
(c) Intensive subsistence agriculture
(d) Co-operative Farming
Answer
Answer: (d) Co-operative Farming
Question 22.
Complete the following table by writing appropriate name in the blank.
Answer
Answer: Shaft mining
