6.
Human Resources
Q 1 What is the population composition? Mark (1)
Q 2 What is the natural growth rate? Mark (1)
Q 3 What is death rate? Mark (1)
Q 4 What is migration? Mark (1)
Q 5 What is birth rate? Mark (1)
Q 6 Why has the world population increased drastically over the past few
decades? Mark (1)
Q 7 What are the criterions on which people all around the world differ from
each other? Mark (1)
Q 8 Which are the factors that affect distribution of population? Mark (1)
Q 9 When was the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development created?
What is its aim? Mark (1)
Q 10 On what criterions do the human resources all over the world differ?
Mark (1)
Q 11 What is the working age of people? Mark (1)
Q 12 What is the general trend of migration? Marks (3)
Q 13 What does a population pyramid show? Marks (3)
Q 14 Elucidate the social, cultural and economic impact on population
distribution. Marks (3)
Q 15 Why are the human resources called the ultimate resource? Marks (3)
Q 16 What is the pattern of population distribution? Is population evenly
distributed? How? Marks (4)
Q 17 Which are the geographical factors affecting the distribution of
population? Marks (4)
Q 18 India‟s population is by and large male dominated. Give reasons in
support of this statement. Marks (5)
Q 19 Briefly explain the age structure composition of the population of India.
Marks (5)
Q 20 Briefly explain the density of population in India. Marks (5)
Q 21 What would the shape of the population pyramid be, if a country has
both high birth rate and death rate? Marks (5)
Q 1 How does nature‟s bounty become a resource?
Q 2 What characteristics of human resource make them useful for the
nation?
Q 3 When was Ministry of Human Development formed and what was its
aim?
Q 4 What do you understand by pattern of population distribution?
Q 5 How can you say that world‟s population is unevenly distributed?
Q 6 What is density of population?
Q 7 Compare the world‟s population density with that of India?
Q 8 What are the factors affecting the distribution of population?
Q 9 How does topography affects the population distribution?
Q 10 Give examples of the areas where availability of minerals have
attracted people for settling?
Q 11 What are the social factors that attract human settlement?
Q 12 How does availability of fresh water help in population settlement? Give
examples.
Q 13 What were the reasons for slow and steady growth until 1800?
Q 14 What do you understand by population change? What are the factors
responsible for this change?
Q 15 How can you say that population exploded until 1999? What were the
reasons for this explosion?
Q 16 What is natural growth rate?
Q 17 What are the components of population growth? Write in detail.
Q 18 How will the population decrease in any country ?
Q 19 Why do people migrate from rural to urban areas?
Q 20 Why do you think the population in the developing countries is
increasing?
Q 21 What are the implications of having high number of old age population
in any country?
Q 22 What are the characteristics of the population that makes them
different from each other?
Q 23 Why should we study about population composition?
Q 24 In an age-sex pyramid, if the base is broad and the top is narrow, then
what does it depict