Class 6 SS Economic Activities Around Us MCQ
1. What are activities that create monetary value called?
a) Non-economic activities
b) Economic activities
c) Social activities
d) Cultural activities
2. Which of the following is NOT a primary sector activity?
a) Agriculture
b) Mining
c) Manufacturing
d) Fishing
3. The secondary sector involves:
a) Direct extraction from nature
b) Processing raw materials into products
c) Providing services
d) Trading goods
4. Which sector is also known as the service sector?
a) Primary sector
b) Secondary sector
c) Tertiary sector
d) Quaternary sector
5. AMUL cooperative was established in which year?
a) 1940
b) 1946
c) 1950
d) 1955
6. Who advised the farmers of Anand to form a cooperative?
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
d) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
7. Which of the following is an example of tertiary sector activity?
a) Farming vegetables
b) Making furniture
c) Transportation services
d) Mining coal
8. The process of heating milk to kill harmful bacteria is called:
a) Homogenization
b) Pasteurisation
c) Fermentation
d) Condensation
9. Dr. Varghese Kurien was associated with which cooperative?
a) Mother Dairy
b) AMUL
c) Nandini
d) Aavin
10. Which of the following is a primary sector activity?
a) Teaching in schools
b) Raising livestock
c) Construction of buildings
d) Banking services
11. Converting wood from forests into furniture is an example of:
a) Primary sector activity
b) Secondary sector activity
c) Tertiary sector activity
d) None of the above
12. How many two-wheelers were produced in India in 2022?
a) 45 lakhs
b) 10.3 lakhs
c) 8.6 lakhs
d) 2 crores
13. What is a cooperative?
a) A government organization
b) A group of people who voluntarily come together for economic needs
c) A private company
d) A foreign organization
14. Middlemen are people who:
a) Produce goods
b) Buy goods from producers and sell to consumers
c) Provide transportation
d) Work in factories
15. Which state does the Nandini milk cooperative belong to?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Punjab
c) Karnataka
d) Bihar
16. Recycling one tonne of paper saves how many trees?
a) 10 trees
b) 17 trees
c) 25 trees
d) 30 trees
17. Large buildings used for storing products before sale are called:
a) Factories
b) Mills
c) Warehouses
d) Shops
18. Which sector does software development belong to?
a) Primary sector
b) Secondary sector
c) Tertiary sector
d) All of the above
19. The extraction of oil from groundnut is an example of:
a) Primary sector activity
b) Secondary sector activity
c) Tertiary sector activity
d) Non-economic activity
20. AMUL is located in which district of Gujarat?
a) Ahmedabad
b) Surat
c) Anand
d) Vadodara
21. Which of the following provides utilities like water and electricity?
a) Primary sector
b) Secondary sector
c) Tertiary sector
d) None of the above
22. Fish farming is also known as:
a) Aquaculture
b) Fishery
c) Pisciculture
d) Both b and c
23. The sale of goods in small quantities to end consumers is called:
a) Wholesale
b) Retail
c) Export
d) Import
24. Which leader worked alongside Tribhuvandas Patel to establish AMUL?
a) Sardar Patel
b) Dr. Varghese Kurien
c) Lal Bahadur Shastri
d) Morarji Desai
25. The three economic sectors are:
a) Independent of each other
b) Interdependent on each other
c) Competing with each other
d) Unrelated to each other
Answer Key
1. b) Economic activities
2. c) Manufacturing
3. b) Processing raw materials into products
4. c) Tertiary sector
5. b) 1946
6. c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
7. c) Transportation services
8. b) Pasteurisation
9. b) AMUL
10. b) Raising livestock
11. b) Secondary sector activity
12. d) 2 crores
13. b) A group of people who voluntarily come together for economic needs
14. b) Buy goods from producers and sell to consumers
15. c) Karnataka
16. b) 17 trees
17. c) Warehouses
18. c) Tertiary sector
19. b) Secondary sector activity
20. c) Anand
21. b) Secondary sector
22. d) Both b and c
23. b) Retail
24. b) Dr. Varghese Kurien
25. b) Interdependent on each other
