Chapter 5: Primary Activities

Important Questions

1. Future of shifting cultivation is bleak. Discuss.

2. Define the areas where Mediterranean agriculture is practised.

3. What do you mean by Collective Farming?

4. What do you mean by Viticulture?

Sample Questions

1. What is the importance of ‘dairy farming? Why it is mainly practised near urban and industrial centres of the world? Explain any two reasons.

2. “Gathering and hunting are the primitive economic activities meant for the subsistence of tribal societies, but in modern times gathering is market oriented and has become commercial.” Examine the statement.

3. Describe the way of life of nomadic herders in the World.