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Secondary activities:- the processing and conversion of raw materials into useful Products are concidard as secondary activities.

Tertiary activities:- where as tertiary sector is basically the part of the economy that helps both the sector of primary and secondary it includes all kinds of services.

Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu.

Digboi in Assam petroleum mining first start in India.

Big Inch pipeline Transport Petroleum. 

Mount Abu falls under Tourist Town of category.

1. Iron ore 

2. Copper 

3. Manganese 

4. Bauxite

Coniferous forest region is ideal for the gathering forest products for livelihood by man which is found in cold temperate region. So it encourages largely on this part of the world.

• Assam West 
• Bengal 
• Kerala 
• Tamil Nadu

1. West Bengal

2. Assam 

3. Odisha 

4. UP 

5. Bihar 

6. Andra Pradesh 

7. Telangana 

8. Tamil Nadu

Assam, Gujarat, Maharashtra

Population pyramid represents are:

• Birth rate 
• Death rate
• Age- sex structure

1. coffee Robusta 

2. Coffee Arabica 

3. Coffee liberica

1. Mecca 

2. Rome

• Punjab
• U.P. 
• Hariyana 
• Himachal Pradesh 
• Utterakhand 
• M.P 
• Rajastan 
• Bihar

Wheat cultivation is not possible in Kerala because,

• Scarcity of alluvial soil 
• High temperature 
• Poor irrigation facilities

Kerala has a highest and Chhattisgarh has a lowest HDI in India.

The geographical conditions suitable for wheat cultivation are:

• Fertile plain lands.
• Temperate regions conducive for wheat cultivation
• Availability of porous or well-drained fertile soil with content of lime.
• Average temperatures of 10°C during planting and 15°C to 26°C during harvesting period and 75 cm of rainfall are needed for wheat cultivation. These conditions are available in these states.
• Rainfall received from western disturbance is suitable for the cultivation of rabi crops like wheat.

To save domestic producers from international competition so that they may develop.

• Romanticism criticised glorification of reason and science and focused instead on emotions, intuitions and mystical feelings. The poets and romantic artists tried to create a sense of shared collective heritage, a common cultural past, as the basis of nationalism. 
• Some Romantics, like the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, tried to popularise the true spirit of the nation through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances. 
• The Polish artist, Karol Kurpinski encouraged national struggle through his operas and music, turning folk dances like the ‘polonaise’ and ‘mazurka’ into national symbols. Language also played an important role in developing nationalist feelings. The Grimm Brothers promoted German langauge to oppose French domination through their collection of folk tales. The Polish used language as a weapon against Russian domination.

At the international level, Consumers International is an umbrella body, which has become the foundation for consumer movement. It was adopted in 1985.

The public sector contributes to the economic development of a nation by not mere financial profits. The public sector plays a vital role in contributing to the Human Development Index via its functioning in health and education services. Also, by buying food grains at a "fair price" from farmers, providing electricity, water, postal services at low rates, the government ensures that the people have a good living. It utilises taxes and grants to pay for the same. Thus, it plays a vital role in adding to the economic development of a nation, based on its human development situation.

A few examples of public sector activities are provision of water, electricity and some modes of transport. The government has taken these up because water and power are needed by everyone. If the work of providing electricity and water is left to private enterprises, the latter might exploit this opportunity and sell these at rates which the masses cannot afford. Hence, to ensure that basic amenities like water and power are available for all, the government supplies these at low and affordable rates.

To save domestic producers from international competition so that they may develop

Saheb was a child from Bangladesh whose full name was Saheb-e-Alam. His name is very ironical to what type of life he had to live in his real life. The meaning of his name signified lord of the universe but in reality, he lacked basic requirements of life. He used to collect the recyclable plastics from the garbage.

They are Self-Help Groups formed by the poor rural women.

The distrust between Tamil speaking and the Sinhalese over the majoritarianism issue resulted in a widespread conflict which soon turned into a civil war. 

Slums are residential areas of the least choice, dilapidated houses, poor hygienic conditions, poor ventilation, lack of basic amenities like drinking water, light and toilet facilities, etc.

Problems- 

1. Narrow street pattern prone to fire. 

2. Slum population works in low paid, high risk-prone, unorganised sectors. 

3. Under nutrition prone to diseases and illness. 

4. The poverty makes them vulnerable to drug abuse, alcoholism, crime and ultimately social exclusion.

Industries degrade the land in the following ways: 

• Wastes like glass, harmful chemicals, industrial effluents, packaging, salts and garbage makes the soil useless.
• Mineral processing like grinding limestone for cement industry generates huge amount of dust that settles down on land. It makes land unfit for cultivation. 
• Large scale deforestation for setting up production units turns land as wasteland. 
• Construction of roads, housing complexes also degrades land. 
• The following are the methods that can control land degradation caused by industries. 
• Control on mining and quarrying activities. 
• Proper discharge of industrial waste and effluents

Dispersed settlements in India appears in the form of isolated huts or hamlets of few huts in remote jungles, or on small hillswith farms or pasture on the slopes. Extreme dispersion is caused by fragmented nature of the terrain and land resource base of habitable areas. Many areas of Meghalaya, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala have this type of settlement.

Combustion of fossil fuels, mining and industries are the main sources of air pollution.

Surface and underground mining.

To increase the speed as well as the haulage capacity. It has also improved the environment of the stations.

The Northern Atlantic Sea Route.

The answer is A man was murdererd!

Maid murdered the man as she is speaking a lie that she was getting the post. As Post office doesn't work on Sunday; so she is lying and could be a murderer.

Answer is  The Mediterranean — Indian Ocean

Mahatma Gandhi.

A pressure group does not aim to directly control or share political power but a political party directly controls and shares political power.

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaya is the author of the novel 'Anandamath'.

River Brahmaputra

The inherent problem in 'Double Coincidence of Want' is that one has to spend a lot of time searching for a person ready to exchange goods.

The Ganga river, between Allahabad and Haldia (1620 km) - National Waterways No. 1.

Pressure groups are formed when people with common occupation, interest, aspirations, or opinions come together in order to achieve a common objective, at times forcing government to fulfil their wishes.

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) functions as a branch of the political party 'Bharatiya Janata Party' (BJP) in India.

Bihar is not a raw silk producing state.

(b) They are all of coral origin 

The wont affected state of India by the menace of sea erosion is Kerala.

Coir, Copra, Coconut, Cashew are mainly exported from Cochin.

(b) They are all of coral origin

(b)  They are all of coral origin