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6. Describe important features of the world’s major industries.

7. Where are the world’s largest iron ore reserves found?
8. Describe the use and development of iron and steel industry in India.
9. What is known as Information Technology? Describe its industrial classification and
recent developments. Compare and contrast two representative centers of growth of
information technology in India and USA.
10. How does the computer help the villagers? Elaborate on the basis of your own
experience.

H TS Questions
H TS Questions
A. Discuss the role of industries in our day-to-day life.
B. Why are iron and steel important for the growth and development of modern civilization?

Activity
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Activity
A. Categorise industries in your local area on the basis of ownership, raw materials and size.
B. On an outline map of the world, mark and label the following.

w Two iron and steel centres in every continent.
w One major industrial region in every continent.

C. On an outline map of India, mark and label the following.
w Any three major industrial regions.
w Any four iron and steel producing centres.
w Centres of IT industry— Bengaluru, Gurugram (formerly Gurgaon), Noida and Pune.

D. Visit a small-scale industry and prepare a project report on how to solve their problems.

E. Prepare a picture-album to demonstrate how information technology is changing the life of
people in villages.

Value Based Question
Value Based Question
Imagine, you were a journalist working for a newspaper ‘National Daily’ during the eighteenth
century. Write an article for the newspaper highlighting the policies adopted by the British to
market the machine made cloth of Great Britain in India and thereby to destroy Indian handloom
industry.

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