World economic geography
Primary activities of the world
Practise 1 PYQConcepts to cover
- Hunting and gathering; nomadic herding (Sahara, Central Asian steppe, tundra) and commercial livestock rearing
- Primitive and intensive subsistence agriculture; wet paddy and other crops
- Plantation agriculture: origin, crops, regions
- Extensive commercial grain cultivation; mixed farming (crops and livestock together); dairy farming
- Mediterranean agriculture (viticulture), market gardening, truck farming, factory farming
- Cooperative and collective farming (kolkhoz)
- Mining: factors of location, open-cast and shaft mining
Where to study
Fundamentals of Human Geography, Class XII, chapter 4: Primary Activities (Reprint 2026-27)
- ch. 4, Primary Activities, p. 1-14 (book pages 22-35)
- ch. 4, Nomadic Herding, p. 3 (book page 24)
- ch. 4, Commercial Livestock Rearing, p. 3-4 (book pages 24-25)
- ch. 4, Primitive Subsistence Agriculture, p. 4-5 (book pages 25-26)
- ch. 4, Intensive Subsistence Agriculture, p. 5-6 (book pages 26-27)
- ch. 4, Plantation Agriculture, p. 7 (book page 28)
- ch. 4, Extensive Commercial Grain Cultivation, p. 7 (book page 28)
- ch. 4, Mixed Farming, p. 8 (book page 29)
- ch. 4, Dairy Farming, p. 8-9 (book pages 29-30)
- ch. 4, Mediterranean Agriculture, p. 9 (book page 30)
- ch. 4, Market Gardening and Horticulture, p. 10-11 (book pages 31-32)
- ch. 4, Co-operative Farming, p. 11 (book page 32)
- ch. 4, Collective Farming, p. 11 (book page 32)
- ch. 4, Factors Affecting Mining Activity, p. 11-12 (book pages 32-33)
- ch. 4, Methods of Mining, p. 12 (book page 33)