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Human Population Growth and Control in India

Covers demographic trends, population statistics, growth factors, consequences, and birth control methods with focus on India

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What kind of a shape does the human population curve possess?

  1. S-shaped
  2. Square-shaped
  3. J-shaped
  4. Zig zag-shaped
  5. Parabolic-shaped
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was the boy to girl ratio in India in 2011?

  1. 1000 : 932
  2. 1000 : 914
  3. 1000 : 927
  4. 1000 : 955
  5. 1000 : 945
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mention the main property of J-shaped growth curve.

  1. Lag and exponential phase
  2. Lag and stationary phase
  3. Exponential stationary phase
  4. Lag, exponential and stationary phase
  5. Exponential and stationary phase
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the primary reason for increase in human population?

  1. The increase in agricultural production
  2. The decrease in agricultural production
  3. The decrease in medical technology
  4. The increase in birth rate and decrease in death rate
  5. The decrease in birth rate and increase in death rate
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What does the term 'Population Statistics' mean?

  1. Population statistics is the number of individual organisms in a population.
  2. Population statistics is the use of statistics to analyze characteristics or changes to a population.
  3. Population statistics is the presence of a systematic difference in allele frequencies between subpopulations in a population possibly due to different ancestry, especially in the context of association studies.
  4. Population statistics is a condition of demographic balance where the number of people in a specified population neither grows nor declines, considered as a social aim by some.
  5. Population statistics is a study of a group of individuals taken from the general population who share a common characteristic, such as age, sex, or health condition.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How can the population density of a particular area be computed?

  1. Dividing the total number of individuals living in that area by the total fertile land area
  2. Dividing the total number of individuals living in that area by the total urban and rural area
  3. Dividing the total number of individuals living in that area by the total land area
  4. Dividing the total number of individuals living in that area by the total urban area alone
  5. Dividing the total number of individuals living in that area by the total rural area alone
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What does the term 'Population density' state?

  1. Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans.
  2. Population density is the branch of life sciences that studies short-term and long-term changes in the size and age composition of populations, and the biological and environmental processes influencing those changes.
  3. Population density can refer to the decline in population of any organism, but this article refers to population decline in humans.
  4. Population density is a type of mathematical model that is applied to the study of population dynamics.
  5. Population density is a summation of all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in the same geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a correct pair?

  1. Death rate : Mortality
  2. Birth rate : Natality
  3. Tubectomy : Female
  4. Vasectomy : Male
  5. Castration : Vas deferens
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

There is a major problem of population explosion in India. Which of the following is not a primary cause of this problem?

  1. High birth rate
  2. Preference of a male child
  3. Polygamy
  4. High literacy rate
  5. Widow re-marriage
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

During which days, following the start of menstruation, there should be no intercourse so that the sperm cannot meet with the ovum?

  1. 6th to 12th
  2. 5th to 9th
  3. 11th to 18th
  4. 8th to 18th
  5. 20th to 25th
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the study of population called?

  1. Population dynamics
  2. Demography
  3. Population sociology
  4. Population ecology
  5. Population density
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which among the following is not an outcome of increasing population in India?

  1. Decrease in epidemics due to crowded and unhygienic living conditions
  2. Scarcity of food, space and water
  3. Unemployment and poverty increases
  4. Transportation problems in cities
  5. Increased levels of pollution - air, water, soil and noise
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Expand the term MTP.

  1. Medical treatment of patient
  2. Medical termination of pregnancy
  3. Medical treatment of pregnancy
  4. Method of treatment of pregnancy
  5. Method of termination of pregnancy
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Population increases in ___________ ratio, while food production increases in ___________ ratio.

  1. arithmetic, geometric
  2. arithmetic, harmonic
  3. harmonic, geometric
  4. geometric, arithmetic
  5. geometric, harmonic
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following factors do not govern the growth of population?

  1. Birth rate
  2. Death rate
  3. Immigration
  4. Emigration
  5. Population density
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

There is a need to control population growth in India. Which of the following is not correct in this respect?

  1. It is leading to a great economic pressure on the parents, which is affecting their quality of life.
  2. There is a struggle for existence.
  3. In order to make India a developing country.
  4. For proper education system in India.
  5. For the welfare of society.
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a step to control the increasing human population in India?

  1. Family planning
  2. Education of the people about small family norms and its benefits
  3. Raising the age of marriage to 18 in girls and 21 in boys
  4. Strict laws against child-marriage
  5. Strict laws of compulsory child education
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the reason of the failure of family planning in the rural villages and countryside of India?

  1. There is high educational level.
  2. The people do not follow traditional, cultural and religious beliefs and superstitions.
  3. The villagers also feel that with more children to help supplement the family income, the family will be better off.
  4. The people of the rural areas often follow the methods of birth control.
  5. There is high mutual understanding and interaction between the family members in rural areas.
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the current population of the world?

  1. 5 billion
  2. 6 billion
  3. 7 billion
  4. 8 billion
  5. 9 billion
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A ________________ is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

  1. sample
  2. census
  3. population curve
  4. population density
  5. population statistics
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the literacy rate of men and women in India, respectively?

  1. 63.9% and 39.4%
  2. 39.4% and 63.9%
  3. 25.5% and 45.8%
  4. 20.4% and 50.7%
  5. 50.7% and 20.4%
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