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Secondary Activities
What are secondary activities and why are they called secondary? Describe with examples.
Industries which are involved in making more valuable and useful goods from the products of primary activites such as agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining are called secondary activities. Manufacturing of cloth from cotton; sugar from sugarcane etc. are the examples of secondary activities.
They are called secondary activities because they process and manufacture the primary products into secondary products, thus they represents the secondary stage of activities.
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Which one of the following types of industries produces raw materials for other industries?
Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
Write a short note on the following in about 30 words.
High-tech industry.
Write a short note on the following in about 30 words.
Manufacturing.
Write a short note on the following in about 30 words.
Footloose industries.
Differentiate between primary and secondary activities.
Discuss the major trends of modern industrial activities especially in the developed countries of the world.
Explain why high-tech industries in many countries are being attracted to the peripheral areas of major metropolitan centres.
Africa has immense natural resources and yet it is industrially the most backward continent. Comment.
What are secondary activities and why are they called secondary? Describe with examples.
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