What is a population pyramid?

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(a)

A graphical presentation of the age, sex composition of a population.

(b)

When the population density of an area is so high that people live in tall buildings.

(c)

Pattern of population distribution in large urban areas.

The factors which influence population change are

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(a)

birth rate

(b)

death rate

(c)

migration

(d)

All of these

How much population lives on 30% of the land surface?

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(a)

60%

(b)

70%

(c)

80%

(d)

90%

Which of the following countries has slow growth rate of population?

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(a)

Russia

(b)

Brazil

(c)

Australia

(d)

United Kingdom

The Ministry of Human Resource Development was established by the Government of India in the year.

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(a)

1955

(b)

1965

(c)

1975

(d)

1985

Complete the sentences below using some of the following words. (sparsely, favourable, fallow, artificial, fertile, natural. extreme, densely)
When people are attracted to an area, it becomes ___________populated.
Factors that influence this include ____________climate; good supplies of ____________resources and _____________land.

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(a)

................is the ultimate resource.

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(a)

Human resource

...............in Japan and in........... India are two densely populated areas.

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(a)

Osaka

Varanasi, Jerusalem and Vatican city are some examples of........... factors.

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(a)

religious of cultural

In 1999, less than 30 years later, the population doubled to............ billion.

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(a)

6

Almost three-quarters of the world's people live in two continents, namely Asia and Africa,

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(a) False

(b) True

Deaths are usually measured using the death rate

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(a) False

(b) True

Emigrants are people who arrive in a country,

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(a) True

(b) False

The age group 0-15 comes under the economically dependent group,

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(a) False

(b) True

Green land has the lowest population density,

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(a) False

(b) True

Which hemisphere has more population?

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(a)

Northen Hemisphere

What are the people called who have come from other countries?

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(a)

immigrants

What is emigration?

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(a)

Movement of people to other countries is called emigration

What do you mean by population explosion?

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(a)

A sudden and rapid increase in population is considered to be a population explosion

What do you understand by population distribution?

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(a)

The way in which people are spread across the Earth's surface is known as the pattern of population distribution

What are population pyramids? How do they help in understanding about the population of a country?

3

(a)

What is birth rate?

3

(a)

Define death rate

3

(a)

Why is the population pyramid of Kenya broad at the base and narrow towards the top?

3

(a)

Explain the population pyramid of Japan?

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(a)

What are the bad effects of population explosion on society? How does population pyramid help in understanding the population of the country?

5

(a)

Describe the distribution of population in the world.

5

(a)

Look at the given figure and find out of these countries how many are in Asia? Locate them on a world map

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(a)