People as Resource Class 9 MCQs Questions with Answers

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Question 1.
Which of the following is the most labour absorbing sectors of the Indian economy?
(a) Primary sector
(b) tertiary sector
(c) Secondary sector
(d) Private sector

Answer
Answer: (a) Primary sector

Question 2.
Which of the following is included in the primary sector?
(a) Manufacturing
(b) Tourism
(c) Forestry
(d) Communication

Answer
Answer: (c) Forestry

Question 3.
Which of the following is included in the tertiary sector?
(a) Fishing
(b) Trade
(c) Mining
(d) Health

Answer
Answer: (d) Health
Question 4.
Which of the following is included in the secondary sector?
(a) Poultry farming
(b) Manufacturing
(c) Transport
(d) Quarrying

Answer
Answer: (b) Manufacturing

Question 5.
Investment in human capital can be made through
(a) Education
(b) Training
(c) Medical care
(d) All the three

Answer
Answer: (d) All the three

Question 6.
The literacy rate during 2010-11 was
(a) 64%
(b) 74%
(c) 70%
(d) 80%

Answer
Answer: (b) 74%
Question 7.
Which of the following sectors faces the problem of seasonal unemployment?
(a) Agriculture
(b) Service sector
(c) Trade
(d) IT sector

Answer
Answer: (a) Agriculture

Question 8.
Infant mortality rate is the death of a child under
(a) One year
(b) Three, year
(c) Two year
(d) Four year

Answer
Answer: (a) One year

Question 9.
The workforce population includes people from 15 years to
(a) 59 years
(b) 62 years
(c) 60 years
(d) 65 years

Answer
Answer: (a) 59 years

Question 10.
Which age group of children does the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan aim to promote
education?
(a) 6 to 10 years
(b) 5 to 3 years
(c) 6 to 14 years
(d) 7 to 12 years

Answer
Answer: (c) 6 to 14 years

Question 11.
The number of females per thousand males refers to :
(a) Sex Ratio
(b) Literacy Rate
(c) Infant Mortality Rate
(d) Birth Rate

Answer
Answer: (a) Sex Ratio

Question 12.
Decrease in IMR (Infant Mortality Rate) of a country signifies:
(a) Increase in life expectancy
(b) Increase in GNP
(c) Economic development of a country
(d) Increase in number of colleges in a country

Answer
Answer: (a) Increase in life expectancy

Question 13.
What is the life expectancy in India as per the census of 2000?
(a) 72 years
(b) 53 years
(c) 64 years
(d) 80 years

Answer
Answer: (c) 64 years

Question 14.
Which one of the following is considered important to create a ‘virtuous cycle’ by the
parents?
(a) To sand their children to the school
(b) To provide goods food to their children
(c) To join their children in corporate schools
(d) To take care of the health and education of their children

Answer
Answer: (d) To take care of the health and education of their children

Question 15.
Which one from the following is the most labour absorbing sector?
(a) Agriculture
(b) Fisheries
(c) Poultry farming
(d) Mining

Answer
Answer: (a) Agriculture

Question 16.
What is the aim of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan?
(a) To provide elementary education to women
(b) To provide elementary education to the rural poor
(c) To provide elementary education to all children in the age group 6-14 years
(d) To provide elementary education to the urban poor

Answer
Answer: (c) To provide elementary education to all children in the age group 6-14 years

Question 17.
What is the expended form of PHC
(a) Public Health Club
(b) Private Health Club
(c) Primary Health Centre
(d) None of these

Answer
Answer: (c) Primary Health Centre

Question 18.
What is the sex-ratio of India According to 2001 census, :
(a) 921 females per 1000
(b) 930 females per 1000
(c) 928 females per 1000
(d) 933 females per 1000

Answer
Answer: (b) 930 females per 1000

Question 19.
If a person cannot find jobs during some months of the year, which type of
employment is this called?
(a) Structural unemployment
(b) Cyclical unemployment
(c) Seasonal unemployment
(d) None of these

Answer
Answer: (c) Seasonal unemployment

Question 20.
The persons who are not working by their own willing is covered under
(a) seasonal unemployment
(b) disguised unemployment
(c) educated unemployment
(d) none of the above

Answer
Answer: (d) none of the above

Question 21.
Where is Seasonal unemployment found
(a) urban areas
(b) rural areas
(c) in remote areas
(d) both in rural and urban areas

Answer
Answer: (b) rural areas

Question 22.
The quality of population depends on
(a) literacy rate
(b) health
(c) skill
(d) all the above
Answer
Answer: (d) all the above

Question 23.
Which one from the following is the primary sector activities
(i) Forestry
(ii) Poultry farming
(iii) Animal husbandry
(iv) Manufacturing
(a) (i)
(b) (i), (ii), (iii)
(c) (ii), (iii), (iv)
(d) All the above

Answer
Answer: (b) (i), (ii), (iii)

Question 24.
Infant mortality rate refers to the death of a child under the age of
(a) 1 year
(b) 2 years
(c) 3 years
(d) 4 years

Answer
Answer: (a) 1 year

Question 25.
The scheme for the establishment of residential schools to impart education to
talented children from rural areas is
(a) Kendriya Vidyalayas
(b) Navodaya Vidyalayas
(c) Sarvodaya Vidyalayas
(d) None of the aboves

Answer
Answer: (b) Navodaya Vidyalayas

Question 26.
What is India’s position in scientifically and technically manpower in the world?
(a) first
(b) second
(c) third
(d) fourth

Answer
Answer: (c) third

Question 27.
Which one from the following is include in Secondary sector includes
(a) trade
(b) marketing
(c) manufacturing
(d) education

Answer
Answer: (c) manufacturing

Question 28.
Increase in longevity of life is an indicator of
(a) good quality of life
(b) improvement in health sector
(c) better HDI (Human Development Index)
(d) all the above
Answer
Answer: (a) good quality of life

Question 29.
Which of the following is a significant step towards providing basic education to the
children in the age group of 6-14 years?
(a) Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
(b) Adult Education Programme
(c) Mid-day meal
(d) None

Answer
Answer: (a) Sarva Siksha Abhiyan

Question 30.
Why is literacy rate is low in the females?
(a) lack of equal education opportunities
(b) lack of transport facilities
(c) lack of infrastructure
(d) lack of income

Answer
Answer: (a) lack of equal education opportunities

Intext Activity Questions

Question 1.
Visit a village or colony near to your residential area and note down the various
activities undertaken by the people of that village or colony.
If this is not possible, ask your neighbour what is their profession? In which of the
three sectors will you categorise their work?
Say whether these activities are economic or non-economic activities:
 1. Vilas sells fish in the village market.
2. Vilas cooks food for his family.
3. Sakai works in the private firm.
4. Sakai looks after his younger brother and sister.
Answer
Answer:

1. Economic activity
2. Non-economic activity
3. Economic activity
4. Non-economic activity

People as Resource Class 9 MCQs

Questions with Answers
Question 1.
Which of the following sectors is related to agriculture, forestry and dairy?
(a) Primary Sector
(b) Tertiary Sector
(c) Secondary Sector
(d) None of the above

Answer: (a) Primary Sector

Question 2.
Which one of the following is related to the tertiary sector?
(a) Agriculture
(b) Forestry
(c) Mining
(d) Communication

Answer (d) Communication

Question 3.
Disguised unemployment occurs when the number of persons working on a
farm is
(a) only what is required
(b) more than required
(c) less than required
(d) None of the above

Answer: (b) more than required

Question 4.
Which of the following is an economic activity?
(a) A teacher teaching his son
(b) Recitation among friends
(c) Teacher teaching in the classroom
(d) All of the above

Answer: (c) Teacher teaching in the classroom

Question 5.
Services of housewives are included in
(a) national income
(b) domestic income
(c) household income
(d) none of the above

Answer: (d) none of the above

Question 6.
Secondary sector includes:
(a) Manufacturing
(b) Forestry
(c) Trade
(d) Quarrying

Answer: (a) Manufacturing

Question 8.
What is the major aim of Sarva Sakshi Abhiyan?
(a) To provide elementary education to women
(b) To provide elementary education to the rural poor
(c) To provide elementary education to all children in the age group 6-14
years
(d) To provide elementary education to the urban poor

Answer: (c) To provide elementary education to all children in the age group 6-14 years

Question 9.
On which of the following point, does the quality of population not depend?
(a) Literacy rate
(b) Health of person
(c) Skill formation
(d) Birth of a person

Answer: (d) Birth of a person

Question 10.
The tertiary sector is also called:
(a) Primary sector
(b) Service sector
(c) Manufacturing sector
(d) All of the the above

Answer: (b) Service sector

Question 11.
Domestic work by house wife is a _____ activity.
(a) Economic
(b) Noneconomic
(c) Both of them
(d) None of the above

Answer: (b) Noneconomic

Question 12.
Disguised unemployment could be traced in:
(a) mining activity
(b) service sector
(c) agriculture
(d) social forestry

Answer: (c) agriculture

Question 13.
In which of the following fields is disguised unemployment found?
(a) Industries
(b) Agriculture
(c) Mining
(d) Fisheries

Answer: (b) Agriculture

Question 14.
Why are rural women employed in low-paid jobs?
(a) They do not need to work in high-paid jobs
(b) They lack in education or the necessary skill
(c) They are not allowed by their families to do high paid jobs
(d) They are not aware of the wage structure

Answer: (b) They lack in education or the necessary skill

Question 15.
Bribe taking is an
(a) economic activity
(b) marketing activity
(c) non-economic activity
(d) none of the above

Answer: (c) non-economic activity

Question 16.
Which of the following is not done by women at home?
(a) Cooking food
(b) Cleaning utensils
(c) Washing clothes
(d) Doing tuition work by teaching students

Answer: (d) Doing tuition work by teaching students

Question 17.
Which of the following is a significant step towards providing
elementary education to all the children in the age group of 6-14
years?
(a) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
(b) Mid-day meal
(c) Navodaya Vidyalaya
(d) Sainik School

Answer: (a) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

Question 18.
Which state has highest literacy rate as per 2001?
(a) Kerala
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Bihar
(d) Orissa

Answer: (a) Kerala

Question 19.
Infant mortality rate refers to the death of a child under the age of
(a) 1 year
(b) 2 years
(c) 3 years
(d) 4 years

Answer: (a) 1 year

Question 21.
The excess population is considered as a burden for an economy but they
can become human capital if there is an investment made in the form of:
(a) Education and health
(b) Hospitals and schools
(c) Education, training and medical care
(d) None of the above

Answer: (c) Education, training and medical care

Question 22.
Which of the following is a non-economic activity?
(a) Mother doing household work
(b) Washerman washes doth of people
(c) Chef cooking food in the hotel
(d) All of the above

Answer: (a) Mother doing household work

Question 23.
The two determinants of earning by an individual in the market are:
(a) Health and education
(b) Education and skill
(c) Age and education
(d) Skill and age

Answer: (b) Education and skill

Question 24
What is India’s position in scientifically and technically manpower in the
world?
(a) first
(b) second
(c) third
(d) fourth
Answer: (c) third

Question 25.
Why is literacy rate is low in the females?
(a) lack of equal education opportunities
(b) lack of transport facilities
(c) lack of infrastructure
(d) lack of income

Answer: (a) lack of equal education opportunities