Exercises
1. Answer the following questions.
(i) What is meant by the term 'industry?
(ii) Which are the main factors which influence the location of an industry?
(iii) Which industrty is often referred to as the backbone of modern industry
and why?
(iv) Why cotton textile industry rapidly expanded in Mumbai?
2. Tick the correct answer.
Answers
Answer:
Q1] Answer the following questions.
1] An industry is a group of manufacturers or businesses that produce a particular kind of goods or services. Industry comes from the Latin industria, which means "diligence, hard work," and the word is still used with that meaning.
2] The factors affecting the location of industries are the availability of raw material, land, water, labour, power, capital, transport and market.
3] Steel is called the backbone of the modern industry because almost everything we use is either made of steel or has been made with machinery or tools made out of steel. The steel industry is basically the feeder industry, whose products are the raw materials for other industries.
4] Cotton textile industry expanded rapidly in Mumbai because of the presence of favourable conditions such as warm and moist climate, a port situated nearby to import machinery, availability of raw material and skilled labour.
Answer:
1 -economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories.
2-factors affecting the location of industries are the availability of raw material, land, water, labour, power, capital, transport and market. Industries are situated where some or all of these factors are easily available..
3-Steel is called the backbone of the modern industry because almost everything we use is either made of steel or has been made with machinery or tools made out of steel.