class 9 , self management and communication skills , chapter 3 Q1 how does your perspective influence your behaviour towards a person? Q2 Surabhi and her friends have different opinions about the same artwork . what influences their perspective and makes it different from each other ?
Answers
Question 1.
What is human capital?
Answer:
Human capital is the stock of skilled and productive work force of a nation.
Question 2.
How can the population of a nation becomes human capital?
Answer:
Population of a nation becomes human capital through education, training and medical care.
Question 3.
Which type of investment is known as human capital investment?
Answer:
The investment made in the form of education, training and medical care is known as human capital investment.
Question 4.
How is human capital superior to other resources?
Or
Why is human resource considered to be the best resource? Explain.
Answer:
Human capital can make use of land and capital for further production, whereas land and capital cannot become useful on its own.
Question 5.
Name any four factors which can improve the quality of human resources.
Answer:
Education,
Health,
Training,
Technology.
Question 6.
Mention any four factors on which the quality of population depends.
Answer:
Literacy rate,
Health,
Life expectancy,
Skill.
Question 7.
‘Countries like Japan did not have any natural resources, still they are developed countries.’Give reasons.
Answer:
They have invested on people especially in the field of education and health.
The skilled and trained people have made efficient use of other resources like land and capital. Efficiency and technology evolved by people have made these countries rich/developed.
Question 8.
The various economic activities have been classified into three sectors? What are these sectors?
Answer:
Primary,
Secondary,
Tertiary.
Question 9.
Give two examples of primary sector.
Answer:
Agriculture,
Foresty.
Question 10.
Which sector (in the primary sector) is the most labour absorbing sector of the economy? ‘
Answer:
Agriculture.
Question 11.
Give two examples of secondary sector.
Answer:
Manufacturing of cloth.
Manufacturing of car.
Question 12.
A person is making envelopes with the help of papers. In which sector his activity be included?
Answer:
Secondary sector
Question 13.
Give two examples of tertiary sector.
Answer:
Trace,
Transportation.
Question 14.
What are market activities?
Answer:
The activities which involve remuneration to anyone who performs, i.e., activities performed for pay or profit. For example, growing of cotton by a farmer.
Question 15.
What are determinants of the earning of any individual in the1’ market? ‘
Answer:
Education,
Skill.
Question 16.
State an example of a non-market activity.
Or
Give an example of a non-economic activity.
Answer:
A mother cooking food for her family.
Question 17.
What is the term used for production for self-consumption?
Answer:
Non-market activity.
Question 18.
What are non-market activities?
Answer:
These are activities which are performed for self consumption. For example, growing of wheat by a farmer.
Question 19.
What is infant mortality rate?
Answer:
Infant mortality rate is the death of a child under one year of age.
Question 20.
What is birth rate?
Answer:
Birth rate is the number of babies bom there for every 1000 people during a particular period of time.