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question_answer1) What does 'census' mean?
question_answer2) According to 2001 census, which state is most populous?
question_answer3) In which states of India does half of India's population live?
question_answer4) How is density of population calculated?
question_answer5) What was the population density of India in 2001 census?
question_answer6) What is the highest and lowest density of India?
question_answer7) Why do some states of India have sparse population?
question_answer8) Why do most of the peninsular states have moderate population?
question_answer9) Why do Northern plains and Kerala have very high density of population?
question_answer10) What does growth of population mean?
question_answer11) How do we get absolute increase in numbers of population?
question_answer12) How is annual growth rate calculated?
question_answer13) How is birth rate calculated?
question_answer14) How is death rate counted?
question_answer15) What is migration of population?
question_answer16) What is the impact of migration on population?
question_answer17) What are the push and pull factors of internal migration in India?
question_answer18) What does 'Age Composition' mean?
question_answer19) How is 'Age Composition' an important component of population?
question_answer20) In which category are children below 15 years counted?
question_answer21) What is the age of working population in India?
question_answer22) How people above the age of 59 years are called dependent population?
question_answer23) What is Sex Ratio?
question_answer24) What was the sex ratio of India in the year 2001?
question_answer25) Why literacy is considered an important quality of a population?
question_answer26) Who is considered a literate in India?
question_answer27) What is the literacy rate of male and female as per the census of 2011?
question_answer28) What is referred as occupational structure?
question_answer29) In which three types occupations are broadly classified?
question_answer30) What are the main Primary Activities?
question_answer31) Which occupations are covered under Secondary Activities?
question_answer32) Which activities are considered as Tertiary Activities?
question_answer33) How proportion of people working in different activities varies iii developed and developing countries?
question_answer34) What can be the reasons for the declining death rate in India?
question_answer35) Who are Adolescents?
question_answer36) What is NPP?
question_answer37) What is migration? Which are the two types "of migration? Describe the trends of migration in India.
question_answer38) What is census? When was the first census held in India? Which type of In formations can we get through census?
question_answer39) What do you know about the size and distribution of India's population on the basis of the 2001 Census?
question_answer40) What do you mean by growth of population? How is it calculated?
question_answer41) What are the three main processes of change of population?
question_answer42) Give reasons for how migration plays a significant role in changing the composition and distribution of the population.
question_answer43) What is age composition? How does it affect the population's social and economic structure?
question_answer44) What are the three broad categories of division of population on the basis of their economic structure?
question_answer45) What is sex ratio? How is it calculated?
question_answer46) Who is a literate person according to the Census 2001? Why is literacy considered important for the quality of the population?
question_answer47) What is occupational structure? How are occupations generally classified?
question_answer48) What does the National Population Policy indicate?
question_answer49) What is the relationship between occupational structure and development?
question_answer50) Which areas are sparsely populated in India and why?
question_answer51) What are the advantages of having a healthy population?
question_answer52) What is demographic divide? In which year is this divide seen in India and why?
question_answer53) Sex ratio in the country has always remained unfavorable to females. What are its reasons?
question_answer54) What significant improvements have been noticed in the health status of our population?
question_answer55) What is density of population? Give India's population distribution by density with the reasons responsible for the same.
question_answer56) What is the relationship between occupational structure and development?
question_answer57) What is the role of NPP 2000 in the life of adolescents? Or What are the significant features of National Population Policy 2000?
question_answer58) What is the difference between Population Growth and Population Change? Or Distinguish between population growth and population change.
question_answer59) What are the advantages of having a healthy population?
question_answer60) What are the major components of population growth?
question_answer61) What is the importance of people in this world?
question_answer62) How is population a pivotal element in social studies?
question_answer63) Census provides us with the information regarding (a) population (b) death rate (c) age composition (d) life expectancy rate
question_answer64) Kerala has a sex ratio of (a)1,058 females per 1,000 males (b) 1,001 females per 1,000 males (c) 1,021 females per 1,000 males (d) 1,090 females per 1,000 males
question_answer65) Activities such as transport, communication, commerce, administration, etc. are included in (a) primary activities (b) secondary activities (c) tertiary activities (d) both (a) and (b)
question_answer66) Which major section of the populations needs 'greater attention' according to the NPP 2000? (a) Children (b) Adolescents (c) Youngsters (d) Aged
question_answer67) The magnitude of 'population growth' refers to (a) the total population of an area (b) the number of persons added each year (c) the rate at which the population decreases (d) the number of females per thousand males
question_answer68) According to the Census 2001, a 'literate person is one (a) who can read and write his and her name in any language (b) who is 7 years and above, and can read and write in any language with understanding (c) who can read and write in any language with understanding (d) who can read and write at least in one language with understanding
question_answer69) What is the most significant feature of the Indian population?
question_answer70) In the Census of India held in the year 2011, what was the density of population in India?
question_answer71) In how many years is the official enumeration of population carried out by the Census Bureau?
question_answer72) As per the 2011 Census, which state has the least density of population?
question_answer73) When did the National Population Policy come into effect?
question_answer74) Out of the countries USA, Bangladesh, China and Great Britain, which one has a higher population density than India?
question_answer75) What ages are considered as the age of the working population in India?
question_answer76) Which age range is considered as of adolescents in India?
question_answer77) Is it correct that there has been a substantial improvement in life expectancy at birth during the last 50 years in India?
question_answer78) What is sex ratio?
question_answer79) Which social indicator out of sex ratio, literacy rate, age composition and death rate, is important to measure the extent of equality between males and females in a society at a given time?
question_answer80) Why is the year 1921 considered as a great demographic divide in India?
question_answer81) What kind of migration does not change the size of the population in a country?
question_answer82) In which year was the first Family Planning Programme started by the Government of India?
question_answer83) Under what conditions, will a person be considered literate?
question_answer84) Which activity out of construction, accountancy, fishing and transportation is a primary activity?
question_answer85) Almost 50% of India's population lives in five states. Name them.
question_answer86) Which states of India have the highest and lowest sex ratios?
question_answer87) What is meant by dependency ratio?
question_answer88) Which state out of Rajasthan, Bihar, Assam and Jammu and Kashmir, has the highest population density?
question_answer89) What is the major reason for the state of Kerala having a very high population density?
question_answer90) Does the term 'birth rate' mean the percentage of live births in 1 year?
question_answer91) Which group of persons out of adults, adolescents, the aged and children, comprise the maximum proportion of India's population?
question_answer92) When was the first Census held in India?
question_answer93) Explain any three elements which are responsible for population growth. Or Describe the factors that cause changes in the size of population.
question_answer94) Describe the three different population density zones of India.
question_answer95) "Resources, calamities and disasters are all meaningful only in relation to human beings". Explain the statement with suitable arguments.
question_answer96) Explain what the Census is.
question_answer97) What is meant by occupational structure? Explain the occupational structure of India.
question_answer98) Differentiate between dependent and working population.
question_answer99) How does density of population depend upon topography and climatic conditions?
question_answer100) What are the advantages of having a healthy population?
question_answer101) What is the relationship between age composition and dependency ratio? Explain.
question_answer102) Why is the rate of population growth in India declining since 1981? Explain any three reasons.
question_answer103) Categories the population of a nation into three broad categories on the basis of age composition and explain them.
question_answer104) Define age structure, death rate and birth rate.
question_answer105) Discuss the major components of population growth,
question_answer106) "Despite the declining trend of the growth rate, the population of India is increasing at a faster rate". Justify the statement with argument.
question_answer107) (a) Analyse the table given below. Which values do you think are disturbing the balance of the country? Female Male Gender ratio 46% 56% Occupation 55% 35% (b) What value have you learnt from the given table?
question_answer108) Explain the term annual growth rate of population. How it is affected by the birth rate?
question_answer109) The 2011 Census data reveals that Uttar Pradesh with a population size of 199 million people is the most populous state of India. Uttar Pradesh accounts for about 16% of the country's population. On the other hand, the Himalayan state of Sikkim has a population of just about 0.6 million and Lakshadweep has only 64429 people. Almost half of India's population lives in just five states. These are Uttar (Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. Read the given passage and answer the following questions (a) What could be the reasons of uneven distribution of population in India? (b) What values/lesson have you learnt from the passage?
question_answer110) Consider the following table Year Total Population (in millions) Absolute Increase in the Decade (In million) Annual Growth Rate (%) 1951 361.0 42.43 1.25 1961 439.2 78.15 1.96 1971 548.2 108.92 2.20 1981 683.3 135.17 2.22 1991 846.4 163.09 2.14 2001 1028.7 182.32 1.93 2011 1210.2 181.45 1.64 The above data reveals that despite the decline in growth rates, the number of people being added every decade is steadily increasing. Why?
question_answer111) Distinguish between population growth and population change.
question_answer112) What is the National Population Policy (NPP 2000)? Why was NPP 2000 initiated by the government?
question_answer113) What is the relation between occupational structure and development?
question_answer114) Why is the distribution of population in India uneven? Explain with five examples. Or What could be the reason of uneven distribution of population in India?
question_answer115) What is migration? Which are the two types of migration? Describe the trends of migration in India,
question_answer116) What are the significant features of the National Population Policy 2000?
question_answer117) How is migration a determinant factor of population change?
question_answer118) The National Population Policy (NPP 2000) had envisaged the total population of India to increase to a maximum of 1162 million by 2010, but the population has exceeded this figure by a significant amount. (a) What could have been the reasons for exceed? (b) What values/lesson have you learnt from the Implementation of National Population Policy 2000?
question_answer119) Kerala has a sex ratio of 1084 females per 1000 males. Puducherry has 1038 females per every 1000 males, while Delhi has 866 females per 1000 males and Haryana has just 877 females. What could be the reasons for such variation?
question_answer120) Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below (i) Migrations change the number, distribution and composition of the population in (a) the area of departure (b) the area of arrival (c) Both the area of departure and arrival (d) None of the above
question_answer121) (ii) A large proportion of children in a population is a result of (a) high birth rates (b) high life expectancies (c) high death rates (d) more married couples
question_answer122) (iii) The magnitude of population growth refers to (a) the total population of an area (b) the number of persons added each year (c) the number of females per thousand males (d) the rate at which the population increases
question_answer123) (iv) According to the Census 2001, a literate' person is one who (a) can read and write his/her name (b) can read and write any language (c) is 7 years old and can read and write any language with understanding (d) knows the 3 'R's (reading, writing, arithmetic)
question_answer124) What is the most significant feature of the Indian population?
question_answer125) In the Census of India held in the year 2011, what was the density of population in India?
question_answer126) In how many years is the official enumeration of population carried out by the Census Bureau?
question_answer127) As per the 2011 Census, which state has the least density of population?
question_answer128) When did the National Population Policy come into effect?
question_answer129) Out of the countries USA, Bangladesh, China and Great Britain, which one has a higher population density than India?
question_answer130) What ages are considered as the age of the working population in India?
question_answer131) Which age range is considered as of adolescents in India?
question_answer132) Is it correct that there has been a substantial improvement in life expectancy at birth during the last 50 years in India?
question_answer133) What is sex ratio?
question_answer134) Which social indicator out of sex ratio, literacy rate, age composition and death rate, is important to measure the extent of equality between males and females in a society at a given time?
question_answer135) Why is the year 1921 considered as a great demographic divide in India?
question_answer136) What kind of migration does not change the size of the population in a country?
question_answer137) In which year was the first Family Planning Programme started by the Government of India?
question_answer138) Under what conditions, will a person be considered literate?
question_answer139) Which activity out of construction, accountancy, fishing and transportation is a primary activity?
question_answer140) Almost 50% of India's population lives in five states. Name them.
question_answer141) Which states of India have the highest and lowest sex ratios?
question_answer142) What is meant by dependency ratio?
question_answer143) Which state out of Rajasthan, Bihar, Assam and Jammu and Kashmir, has the highest population density?
question_answer144) What is the major reason for the state of Kerala having a very high population density?
question_answer145) Does the term 'birth rate' mean the percentage of live births in 1 year?
question_answer146) Which group of persons out of adults, adolescents, the aged and children, comprise the maximum proportion of India's population?
question_answer147) When was the first Census held in India?
question_answer148) Kerala has a sex ratio of 1084 females per 1000 males. Puducherry has 1038 females per every 1000 males, while Delhi has 866 females per 1000 males and Haryana has just 877 females. What could be the reasons for such variation?
question_answer149) Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below (i) Migrations change the number, distribution and composition of the population in (a) the area of departure (b) the area of arrival (c) Both the area of departure and arrival (d) None of the above
question_answer150) (ii) A large proportion of children in a population is a result of (a) high birth rates (b) high life expectancies (c) high death rates (d) more married couples
question_answer151) (iii) The magnitude of population growth refers to (a) the total population of an area (b) the number of persons added each year (c) the number of females per thousand males (d) the rate at which the population increases
question_answer152) (iv) According to the Census 2001, a literate' person is one who (a) can read and write his/her name (b) can read and write any language (c) is 7 years old and can read and write any language with understanding (d) knows the 3 'R's (reading, writing, arithmetic)
question_answer153) Kerala has a sex ratio of 1084 females per 1000 males. Puducherry has 1038 females per every 1000 males, while Delhi has 866 females per 1000 males and Haryana has just 877 females. What could be the reasons for such variation?
question_answer154) Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below (i) Migrations change the number, distribution and composition of the population in (a) the area of departure (b) the area of arrival (c) Both the area of departure and arrival (d) None of the above
question_answer155) (ii) A large proportion of children in a population is a result of (a) high birth rates (b) high life expectancies (c) high death rates (d) more married couples
question_answer156) (iii) The magnitude of population growth refers to (a) the total population of an area (b) the number of persons added each year (c) the number of females per thousand males (d) the rate at which the population increases
question_answer157) (iv) According to the Census 2001, a literate' person is one who (a) can read and write his/her name (b) can read and write any language (c) is 7 years old and can read and write any language with understanding (d) knows the 3 'R's (reading, writing, arithmetic)
question_answer158) On the political map of India, locate and label the following with appropriate symbols. (i) The state having lowest sex ratio, (ii) The Union Territory having the least population. (iii) The most sparsely populated state.
question_answer159) Three states are marked on the political map of India. Identify these states with the clues given below and write their names on the lines marked on the map. (i) The least populous state of India, (ii) A state with moderate population density. (iii) The state having highest sex ratio.
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