CBSE Class 10 Economics Development Worksheet Set A

OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

Question. Which of the following is not true about development?
a. Different people usually have same goals.
b. Different people can have different goals.
c. Different people can have different as well as conflicting goals.
d. Different people can have different as well as conflicting goals regarding national development.
Answer - A

Question. Which statement does not justify the need for provision of public facilities
a. Income itself indicate the ability to utilize goods and services
b. Public facilities are provided because people need them
c. Providing public facilities collectively reduces costs
d. Income itself cannot indicate the ability to utilize goods and services
Answer- A

Question. Which one of the following is not a base for preparation of Human Development Index (HDI)
a. Literacy rate
b. Life expectancy
c. Industrialization
d. Per capita income
Answer- C

Question. Which of the following is the most important component for comparing different countries
a. Resources
b. Youth in population
c. Per capita income
d. Life expectancy
Answer- C

Question. Which criteria is used by World Bank for classifying countries?
a. Literacy Rate
b. Life Expectancy
c. Enrolment percentage
d. Per Capita income
Answer- D

Question. Kerala has low infant mortality rate because it has
a. Low provision of basic health and educational facilities
b. Adequate provision of basic health and educational facilities
c. High mortality rate among elderly people
d. None of the above
Answer- B

Question. Body mass index is used to calculate
a. Nourishment level
b. Body growth
c. Only a
d. Both a and b
Answer- D

Question. Assume there are five families in a country. The average per capita income of these families is Rs 10000. If the income of three families is Rs 9500, Rs 10500, Rs 10200 and Rs 9800 respectively, what is the income of the fifth family?
a. Rs 10000
b. Rs 10500
c. Rs 20220
d. Rs 5800
Answer - A

Question. Which of the following is not a reason for a person which will not prevent him from joining a job which pay high salary?
a. Job security
b. Work environment
c. Facilities for family
d. Power
Answer- D

Question. Which of the following is true when industrialists want more dam to get more electricity but tribals oppose it?
a. Different persons can have different developmental goals
b. What may be development for one may not be development for the other.
c. For development, people look at a mix of goals.
d. Different persons could have different as well as conflicting notions of a country’s development.
Answer- B

Very Short Answer Type Questions

Question : The total income of the country divided by its total population is Called
Answer- Per capital income

Question : Which organization publishes the Human Development Report?
Answer- UNDP

Question : Which state in has the highest literacy rate?
Answer- Kerala

Question : As per Human Development Report 2006 which neighboring country has the highest income?
Answer- Sri Lanka

Question : What is sustainable development?
Answer- Development that does not compromise the needs of the future generation.

Question : Development of a country can generally be determined by ____________
Answer- Per capita income

Question : Which of the state has low infant mortality rate?
Answer- Kerala

Question : What is the full form of HDI?
Answer- Human Development Index

Question : Which areas of the world has the largest crude oil reserves?
Answer- The Middle East.

Question : Besides money what are the other developmental goals?
Answer- Respect, Security, Pollution Free environment, etc.

CASE/SOURCE BASED QUESTIONS

Read the paragraph given below and answer the questions that follows

A vessel dumped 500 tons of liquid toxic wastes into open-air dumps in a city and in the surrounding sea. This happened in a city called Abidjan in Ivory Coast, country in Africa. The fumes from the highly toxic waste caused nausea, skin rashes, fainting, diarrhea etc. After a month seven persons were dead, twenty in hospital and twenty-six thousand treated for symptoms of poisoning. A multinational company dealing in petroleum and metals had contracted a local company of the Ivory Coast to dispose the toxic waste from its ship.

Question. Which company should be held responsible for degrading health in Abidjan
a. Multinational company
b. Local company
c. Only a
d. Both a and b
Answer- D

Question. Which of the following is true about the situation in Abidjan
a. Different people have different development goals
b. For development people look at a mix of goals
c. What may be development for one may be destruction for other
d. Only b
Answer- C

Question. What should be the development goal for Ivory Coast
a. Better health facilities
b. Strict laws for waste disposal and management
c. Only a
d. Both a and b
Answer- D

Question. Who are the people who did not benefited
a. Owners of Multinational company
b. Owners of Local company
c. People of Abidjan city
d. None of the above
Answer- C

2 Read the paragraph given below and answer the questions that follows

“Recent evidence suggests that the groundwater is under serious threat of overuse in many parts of the country. About 300 districts have reported a water level decline of over 4 meters during the past 20 years. Nearly one-third of the country is overusing their groundwater reserves. In another 25 years,60 per cent of the country would be doing the same if the present way of using this resource continues. Groundwater overuse is particularly found in the agriculturally prosperous regions of Punjab and Western U.P., hard rock plateau areas of central and south India, some coastal areas and the rapidly growing urban settlements.”

Question. Nearly one-third of the country is overusing their groundwater reserves. In another 25 years what percentage will be overusing their groundwater reserves?
a. 50
b. 40
c. 60
d. 20
Answer- C

Question. Which of the following is not a region where Groundwater overuse is visible?
a. Maharashtra
b. Punjab
c. Rajasthan
d. South India
Answer- C

Question. Which of the following reason is mentioned in paragraph for overuse of groundwater.
a. Domestic use
b. Industrial use
c. Agricultural use
d. Construction work in summer
Answer- C

Question. About_____ districts have reported a water level decline of over ____meters during the past 20 years.
a. 200, 5
b. 150, 20
c. 25, 60
d. 300, 4
Answer- D

3. Study the table given above and answer the questions that follows

Question. Which state perform worst in all categories

a. Haryana
b. Kerala
c. Bihar
d. Both Bihar and Haryana
Answer- C

Question. Which state perform best in all categories
a. Haryana
b. Kerala
c. Bihar
d. Both Bihar and Kerala
Answer- B

Question. Infant mortality rate indicate
a. Death rate of children before age of two years
b. Birth rate of children per year
c. Death rate of children before age of one years
d. Death of children before age of five years
Answer- C

4. Human Development Report published by UNDP compares countries based on the educational levels of the people their health status and per capita income. Study the table given below and answer the questions that follow.

Question. The table shows data of India and its neighbors taken from Human Development Report______

a. 2017
b. 2018
c. 2016
d. None of the above
Answer - A

Question. In which categories India is better than Pakistan and Myanmar?
a. Gross National Income
b. Life Expectancy
c. Only a
d. Both a and b
Answer- D

Question. In which categories Nepal and Bangladesh are better than India?
a. Gross National Income
b. Life Expectancy
c. Mean years of schooling
d. All three
Answer- B

Question. Which countries are ahead of India in all three aspects?
a. Bangladesh
b. Sri Lanka
c. Only a
d. Both a and b.
Answer- B

Question. What does development mean for a landless rural labourer?
Answer-  More days of work and better wages; local school is able to provide quality education for children; there is health facilities, and there is no social discrimination.

Question. Do all people of a country have the same notion of development?
Answer-  No. Different persons can have different goals. What may be development for one may not be development for the other. It may even be destructive for the other.

Question. What are the development goals of people other than income?
Answer-  Besides seeking more income, people also seek things like equal treatment, freedom, security, and respect for others.

Question. Which is the most important criterion for comparing development of countries/states?
Answer-  Income/ Per capita Income.

Question. What is meant by total income of a country?
Answer-  Total value of all goods and services produced within a country and the income coming from abroad in a given period of time.

Question. What is ‘Average Income’ Or ‘Per capita Income’?
Answer-  Percapita Income is obtained by dividing the national income by the population of the country.
PCI=TOTAL INCOME OF A COUNTRY
TOTAL POPULATION

Question. What is the main criterion used by World Bank in classifying different countries?
Answer-
1. In World Development Reports, brought out by the World Bank, this criterion is used in classifying countries.
2. Countries with per capita income of US$ 12616 per annum and above in 2012, are called rich countries and those with per capita income of US$ 1035 or less are called low-income countries.
3. India comes in the category of low middle income countries because its per capita income in 2012 was just US$ 1530 per annum. The rich countries, excluding countries of Middle East and certain other small countries, are generally called developed countries

Question. Why children in many parts of India are not able to achieve Secondary education?
Answer-  Children are not able to achieve secondary education because; government/ society have not provided adequate facilities.

Question. Why does Kerala have low infant mortality rate?
Answer-  Kerala has low infant mortality rate because it has adequate provision of basic health and education facilities.

Question. What are the criterions used by the Human Development Report published by UNDP to compare countries?
Answer- Gross National Income (GNI) per capita (2011 PPP $), Life Expectancy at birth, Literacy Rate for 15+ yrs population.

Question. What is ‘sustainable development’?
Answer-  A development that meets the needs of the present without damaging the environment, and without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Question. How did World Bank classify countries? What criterion did they use? What are its limitations?
Answer-
▪ The World Bank classified countries in to High Income countries, Medium Income countries and Low-Income countries.
▪ Countries with per capita income of US$ 12,056 per annum and above in 2017, are called rich countries.
▪ India comes in the category of low middle income countries because its per capita income in 2017 was just US$ 1820 per annum.
▪ Those with per capita income of US$ 955 or less are called low-income countries.
▪ They used per capita income as the criterion to classify countries.
▪ Limitations of this criterion are the following:
➢ Per capita income alone can’t bring development.
➢ Even though per capita income of many countries is very high, it is noticed that the standard of living of the people remained low.

Question. Give three examples where an average income is used for comparing situations.
Or Why do we use average income? What are the limitations to their use?
Answer-
▪ The per capita income or the average income is used to compare economic development of countries.
▪ We use averages to identify and analyse performance level in different areas.
▪ It is used to compare different situations and to find out the strong and weak points.
▪ We use averages to make calculations easier and averages reveal general performance level.
▪ There are limitations to their use.
▪ Averages will not represent the actual performance.
▪ When we take the average of similar performance or similar amount, it is meaningful.
▪ However, when we calculate two extremes or a number of very low performances and a very high performance, the average will not tell the exact situation.

Question. Why do you think average income is an important criterion for development? Explain.
Answer-
▪ Average income represents the total income of a country keeping in view of the total population.
▪ If the average income is adequate to meet the basic requirement and other facilities that country is considered developed.
▪ More income means more of all things that human beings need.
▪ Whatever people like and should have, they will be able to get with greater income.

Question. Money in your pocket cannot buy all the goods and services that you may need to live well.
OR Prove by giving examples that income itself is not a completely adequate indicator of material goods and services that citizens were able to use.
Answer-
▪ The per capita income of Haryana and Kerala is Rs. 1,80,174 and Rs. 1,63,475 by the year 2018–19.
▪ Though the per capita income of Haryana was much higher than Kerala.
▪ But their infant mortality rate is 30 and it is higher than 10 in Kerala and literacy rate is 82 % in Haryana and 94 % in Kerala.Money cannot buy all the goods and services that we need to live well. It cannot buy a pollution free environment or ensure that we get unadulterated medicine.

12 Define the following Terms
1. Literacy rate
2. Infant Mortality Ratio
3. Public Distribution System
4. Life expectancy at birth.
(For answer refer to TB: Pg: 10, 12 & 13) (Answers should be based on 2017- 2018 text book)

13 What is Public Distribution System? 

14 Mention two main components of ‘Human Development Index’. 

15 Name the neighbouring country of India which had higher Human Development Index for 2004 than India. 

16 Why has Kerala a higher Human Development Index than Mahrashtra, inspite of low per capita income? 

Please refer to this new data as per NCERT ECONOMICSTEXT BOOK 2015-2016

State Per Capita Income for 2012–13 (in Rs)

Maharashtra- 1,07,670
Kerala- 88,527
Bihar - 28,774

Bihar is at the bottom. This means that, on an average, a person in Maharashtra earned Rs 1, 07,670 in one year whereas, on an average, a person in Bihar would earn only around Rs 28,774. So, if per capita income were to be used as the measure of development, Maharashtra will be considered the most developed and Bihar the least developed state of the three. Now, let us look at certain other data pertaining to these states given in Table 1.4.

Source : Economic Survey 2013–14

17 What are renewable sources? 

18 What are Non-Renewable sources? 

19 Give the meaning of ‘net attendance ratio’ with reference to school –going children. 

20 Why is it said that income by itself is not a completely adequate indicator of material goods and services that citizens are able to use? Give one example.

21 Give two examples of renewable resources. 

22 Amongst Kerala, Bihar and Maharastra which one has the highest per capita income? 

23 What does life expectancy at birth denote?

24 What does gross enrolment ratio for three levels mean?

25 Explain the meaning of HDI. Mention three component of measuring HDI according to UNDP report. 

26 Explain the meaning of the following terms:
1. Infant Mortality Rate
2. BMI

(CCE- September 2016)

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