Class 7 Civics Chapter 8 Question Answers - A Shirt in the Market

Very Short Q & A

Q1: When cotton is harvested?

Ans : The bolls carrying cotton takes several days to ripe and after it ripens it is harvested.

Q2: Name few inputs required for cotton cultivation.

Ans : Seeds, Pesticides, fertilizers etc.

Q3: ___________________ weaves clothes that have been made on order from the merchant.

Ans : Weaver

Q4: What links the producer of cotton to the buyer of shirt in the market?

Ans : Chain of market

Q5: Does everyone associated with chain of market are benefited equally?

Ans : No

Q6: Farmer requires borrowing money sometimes to meet the inputs required for _________________.

Ans : Cotton cultivation

Q7: How farmers are depended upon traders?

Ans : To take loans for cultivations, and for other expenses like illness, education of their kids etc.

Q8: There is time in a year when there is no work and no income for the farmers. True/ False.

Ans : True

Q9: What is the role of cloth merchant in chain of market?

Ans : These merchants supply clothes on order to garment manufacturers and exporters throughout the country.

Q10: Weavers spend money on purchase of yarn. True/False.

Ans :  False

Q11: Who gave yarn to the weavers to weave the clothes?

Ans : Merchant

Q12: Who gave yarn to the weavers to weave the clothes?

Ans : garment factories

Q13: At the cloth market, clothes are sold by merchants to the ___________________.

Ans : Arrangement between merchant and weaver

Q14: Weavers work alone on looms. True/False

Ans : False

Q15: Give an example of putting out system.

Ans : They use the cloth to make different dress

Q16: What is the role of garment exporting factories?

Ans : They maximise their own profits by getting maximum work from workers at lowest price and supply the foreign buyers at cheap rates

Q17: Workers are paid ___________for this work

Ans : Less

Q18: Arrange following in increasing order on the basis of profit earn by them Garment exporters, foreign business person, workers

Ans : Workers, Garment exporters, foreign business person

Q19: The foreign busi ness person earns maximum profit, garment exporters made moderate profits and the workers earns minimum for their hard work. True/ False.

Ans : True

Q20: The foreign business person made huge profit in the market. True/ False

Ans : True

Q21: What is a ginning mill?

Ans : A ginning mill is a factory where seeds are removed from cotton balls.