Question

Agriculture	Mining
Fishing	A Mason at Work
Collection of Honey	Extraction of Salt
Drawing Water	Collection of Rubber Latex
Gathering Wood	Gathering of Resin from Trees
Windmill	Transportation by a Pack Animal

Observe all the figures and discuss them in the class. It is necessary that each of the things shown is considered. For this, use the following points.

• What different activities are the individuals in the pictures engaged in?
• What things will they obtain through these activities?
• What are the animals in the pictures doing?
• What is the use of the tall device in figure 8 .12 raised on the ground?
• What is being loaded in the truck? What are we going to get from it?
• Where are all these human activities being performed other than fishing?

Answer 1

• The people are engaged in agriculture, fishing, collecting honey, drawing water, gathering wood, mining, masonry work, extracting salt, collecting rubber latex, gathering resin from trees, using wind energy, and transporting goods with a pack animal.
• They obtain food grains and crops, fish, honey, water, firewood, minerals, buildings, salt, rubber, resin, wind energy, and transported goods.
• The bullocks help in farming, while the donkey carries goods as a pack animal.
• The tall device is a windmill. It is used to convert wind energy into electricity.
• Mined rock or mineral ore is being loaded into the truck. From it, we obtain minerals and metals.
• Except for fishing, most of these activities are mainly carried out on land and by using land-based natural resources.