WAEC - Commerce (2009 - No. 2)
Which of the following occupations comes under the extractive industry?
i. Cattle-rearing, lumbering, farming
ii. Mining, quarrying, hunting
iii. Shipbuilding, road construction, iron bending
iv. Singing, dancing, barbing
i, ii and iii only
i, ii and iv only
i and ii only
ii and iii only
Explication
The extractive industry involves all kinds of works concerned with the extraction of natural resources from the soil, the sea, or forest e.g. farming, fishing, hunting, lumbering, mining, quarrying, etc.
Option C is the correct answer from the given options