Business Sectors & Forms of Ownership is one of 9 topics in the Grade 11 Business Studies CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
Easy
1. A maize farm supplies maize to a milling company, which processes it into flour. This illustrates a link between which two sectors?
Primary and secondary
Secondary and tertiary
Primary and tertiary
Tertiary and tertiary
Answer: Primary and secondary — The maize farm (primary sector, extracting a raw material) supplies the milling company (secondary sector, processing it into flour), illustrating a primary-secondary link.
Easy
2. A distribution company transporting finished bread to a retail store is an example of which sector?
The tertiary sector
The primary sector
The secondary sector
No sector
Answer: The tertiary sector — Transport and distribution is a service activity, making it a tertiary-sector activity.
Medium
3. Name ONE type of tertiary-sector enterprise that primary and secondary-sector enterprises both depend on, according to the lesson.
Answer: Bank — Both primary and secondary-sector enterprises depend on tertiary-sector enterprises such as banks, insurers, and transport/logistics companies to finance, protect, and move their goods.
