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What is manufacturing?Read the answer and worked solution →Workers who turn primary materials into finished goods belong to which sector?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the export of manufactured goods bring a country that it badly needs?Read the answer and worked solution →Which industries have given a major boost to agriculture by raising its productivity?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these industries uses farm produce as its raw material?Read the answer and worked solution →Industries using minerals and metals as raw materials are called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Basic industries are those that do what for other manufacturers?Read the answer and worked solution →BHEL and SAIL are examples of industries in which ownership category?Read the answer and worked solution →Oil India Ltd. is an example of which ownership category?Read the answer and worked solution →Industries owned by the producers or suppliers of raw materials belong to which sector?Read the answer and worked solution →Heavy, medium and light industries all need machines from which basic industry?Read the answer and worked solution →What approximate ratio of iron ore, coking coal and limestone goes into steel?Read the answer and worked solution →Which plateau region has the highest concentration of iron and steel industries?Read the answer and worked solution →Which metal is light, resists corrosion and is used to make aircraft and wires?Read the answer and worked solution →Which bulky reddish rock is the raw material used in aluminium smelters?Read the answer and worked solution →Which inorganic chemical is used to make fertilizers, synthetic fibres and paints?Read the answer and worked solution →Where are organic chemical plants usually located?Read the answer and worked solution →Why must India import all of its potash for fertilizers?Read the answer and worked solution →Which revolution helped the fertilizer industry spread to many more parts of India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which bulky raw material is needed for cement manufacture?Read the answer and worked solution →In which city was India's first cement plant set up, in 1904?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indian city has emerged as the electronic capital of India?Read the answer and worked solution →How many types of pollution are industries responsible for?Read the answer and worked solution →Which industrial wastes are among the major solid wastes in India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a main culprit of industrial water pollution?Read the answer and worked solution →What happens in thermal pollution of water?Read the answer and worked solution →How many times the quantity of freshwater does one litre of industrial wastewater pollute?Read the answer and worked solution →Which phase of effluent treatment uses screening, grinding and sedimentation?Read the answer and worked solution →Which phase of effluent treatment involves recycling of wastewater?Read the answer and worked solution →What switch in fuel helps reduce smoke from factories?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What is manufacturing?

  1. Growing crops for sale on farms
  2. Selling goods in local markets
  3. Digging minerals out of the earth
  4. Making finished goods from raw materials
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Correct answer: D. Making finished goods from raw materials

Manufacturing is the process of turning raw materials into finished goods made in large numbers.

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Workers who turn primary materials into finished goods belong to which sector?

  1. Primary sector
  2. Tertiary sector
  3. Secondary sector
  4. Quaternary sector
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Correct answer: C. Secondary sector

Factory and mill workers who convert primary materials into finished products are in the secondary sector.

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What does the export of manufactured goods bring a country that it badly needs?

  1. Shrinking domestic trade
  2. Reduced bank deposits
  3. Lower import duties
  4. Foreign exchange
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Correct answer: D. Foreign exchange

Exports of manufactured goods earn foreign currency, which a country needs to pay for imports.

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