Social Studies Question(1 Marks)

Some examples of agro-based industries are food processing, vegetables oil, cotton textile, dairy products and leather industries.

Cotton textile and iron and steel industries are the oldest industries in the world.

Technical failure or irresponsible handling of hazardous material could be one reason for industrial disaster.

An industrial region is a place where a number of industries are located close to each other and share the benefits of their closeness. For example, Mumbai-Pune cluster and Bangalore-Tamil Nadu region.

Industry means an economic activity that is related to production of goods, extraction of minerals and the provision of services. For examples, iron and steel industry, coal mining industry and tourism industry.

TISCO was started in 1907 at Sakchi, near the confluence of the rivers Subarnarekha and Kharkai in Jharkhand.

Smelting is the process in which metals are extracted from their ores by heating above the melting point.

Ginning, spinning, weaving and dyeing are processes involved in a textile industry.

Visakhapatnam steel plant of India is located near a port.

Industries are classified according to raw material used, size and ownership

Manufacturing is an activity which changes raw material into products of more value to people