Chapter-6[ Human Resources]
1. Which does the term population distribution refer to?
a) How the population in a specified area changes over time.
b) The number of people who die in relation to the number of people born in a specified area.
c) The way in which people are spread across a given area.
d) the way of people live in a given area.
Answer. c) The way in which people are spread across a given area.
2. What are the three main factors that cause population changes?
a) Births, deaths, and marriage
b) Births, deaths, and migration
c) Births, deaths, and life expectancy
d) death, migration, and life expectancy
Answer. b) Births, deaths, and migration
Births, deaths, and migration are the three main factors that cause population changes.
3. In 1999, the world population reached
a) 1 billion
b) 3 billion
c) 6 billion
d) 9 billion
Answer. c) 6 billion.
1999: 6 Billion
1974: 4 Billion
1950: 2.5 Billion
1900: 1.65 billion
4. What is a population pyramid?
a) A graphical presentation of the age and 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
d) world distribution of population
5. Ministry of Human Resource Development was created in which year?
a) 1955
b) 1965
c) 1975
d) 1985
Answer. d) 1985
6. Which of the following fact is not true regarding Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna (PKVY)?
a) It was started in 2015.
b) It had the aim to train one crore of Indian youth from 2016 to 2020.
c) The objective of this scheme is to encourage aptitude towards employable skills by giving quality training.
d) It was under the Finance ministry.
Answer. d) It was under the Finance ministry.
7. The way in which people are spread across the earth's surface is known as?
a) Population density
b) the pattern of population distribution.
c) Population growth
d) Population pyramid
Answer. b) the pattern of population distribution.
8. More than 90 percent of the world’s population lives on about ----- percent of the land surface.
a) 10
b) 20
c) 30
d) 40
Answer. c) 30
9. Sixty percent of the world’s people stay in just------countries?
a) 5
b) 8
c) 10
d) 15
Answer. c) 10
10. Which of the following countries does not come in the top 10 populous countries in the world?
a) Japna
b) Australia
c) Russia
d) Nigeria
Answer. b) Australia; top ten populous countries of the world are: china> India> USA> Indonesia> Brazil> Pakistan> Bangaldesh> Nigeria> Russia> Japan.
11. Average density of the population in India is ------ persons per square km.
a) 382
b) 385
c) 395
d) 412
Answer. a) 382
12. What is the average density of the population in the whole world?
a) 31
b) 41
c) 51
d) 75
Answer. c) 51
13. Which of the following region has the highest population density in the world?
a) Europe
b) East China
c) southeast Asia
d) South-Central Asia
Answer. d) South-Central Asia
14. What Number of years that an average person can expect to live called?
a) Life expectancy
b) Mortality rate
c) Child Mortality rate
d) Employment rate
Answer. a) Life expectancy
15. In which year did the world’s population reach one billion?
a) 1775
b) 1800
c) 1804
d) 1820
Answer. c) 1804
16. In which year did the world’s population reach 3 billion?
a) 1900
b) 1947
c) 1959
d) 1999
Answer. c) 1959
17. In which year did the world’s population reach 6 billion?
a) 1900
b) 1947
c) 1959
d) 1999
Answer. d) 1999
18. Which of the following is not a natural cause of population change?
a) Birth rate
b) Death rate
c) Migration
d) None
Answer. c) Migration
19. ---- are people who leave a country.
a) Emigrants
b) Immigrants
c) Migration
d) Balance of population
Answer. a) Emigrants
20. ---- are those who arrive in a country.
a) Emigrants
b) Immigrants
c) Migration
d) Balance of population
Answer. b) Immigrants
21. Which of the following country has a very high( 3 % or more) annual rate of natural population growth?
a) India
b) Pakistan
c) Nepal
d) Bhutan
Answer. d) Bhutan
22. Which of the following country has a narrow population pyramid?
a) India
b) Japan
c) Kenya
d) the USA
Answer. b) Japan
23. When people are attracted to an area it becomes ....................... populated.
a) sparsely
b) favorable
c) densely
d) fallow
Answer. c) densely.
Chapter Wise MCQ of class 8 geography
- Chapter-1[ Resources]
- Chapter -2 [ Land, Soil, Water, Natural Vegetation, and Wildlife Resources]
- Chapter -3[ Mineral and Power Resources]
- Chapter-4 [ Agriculture]
- Chapter-5[ Industries]
- Chapter-6[ Human Resources]
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