Grade 4 · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 10
Jobs & Industries
Primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors
What your child practises
The four economic sectors (gathering resources, making goods, providing services and working with information), and examples of Canadian industries in each.
Ontario Curriculum expectation: B1.1, B3.2, B3.3 · the four economic sectors and Canadian industries in different regions
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Alberta's oil sands are an example of…
🛢️- a school
- a service business
- a tourism business only
- a primary-sector industry
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a primary-sector industry
Hint: Oil is taken from the ground.
Question 2
The sale of syrup in a store is part of which sector?
🛍️- secondary
- tertiary
- quaternary
- primary
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tertiary
Hint: Selling is a service.
Question 3
Why do most of Canada's cars get made in southern Ontario?
🚗- it is a desert
- cars grow on trees there
- it has the most mines
- it has factories, workers and transportation links
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it has factories, workers and transportation links
Hint: Manufacturing needs workers and good transport.
Question 4
A maple syrup farm that bottles syrup combines which sectors?
🍁- tertiary only
- none
- primary and secondary
- secondary and quaternary only
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primary and secondary
Hint: Tapping trees is primary and bottling is secondary.
Question 5
The secondary sector is based on…
🏭- gathering resources
- research only
- making and processing goods
- providing services
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making and processing goods
Hint: Factories turn materials into products.
Question 6
A sawmill turns logs into lumber. A sawmill worker is in the…
🪚- secondary sector
- tertiary sector
- primary sector
- quaternary sector
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secondary sector
Hint: Making wood products is secondary.