1. _____________ is the statistical study of human population. It includes the study of size, structure and
distribution of population as well as changes in time and location in response to birth, migration, aging
and death.
a) Demography b) Geography
c) Anthropogeography d) Bio Geography
2. Which of the following are not densely populated areas?
a) The Ganges valley, Brahmaputra valley, and Eastern Asia.
b) The Ganges valley, Brahmaputra and NE USA.
c) Sahara, Eastern Siberia and Patagonia region.
d) Brahmaputra valley, Hwang – Ho valley and North Western Europe
3. Which one of the following is/are moderate density area/s? Answer by using the codes given.
a) Central part of the United States of America, Tropical Western Africa, Western blocks of Russia,
Eastern Europe,
b) Deccan Plateau of India, Central China, Southern portion of the Plateau of Mexico,
c) North-Eastern Brazil and Central Chile, Tropical Western Africa, Western blocks of Russia, Eastern
Europe,
d) Amazon forest region of South America and Congo forest region of Africa,Arctic area of
Canada and Greenland and the Polar regions.
A) ii) and iii) only B) i) and ii) only
C) i), ii) and iii) only D) ii), iii) and iv) only
4. One of the following statements is untrue?
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A) The total arable land in the world is 13.3% and the nutritional density of the world is 325 per sq.km of
land.
B) The total percentage of arable land is 48.83 in India and its nutritional density is 753 per sq.km of land.
C) Singapore has the highest nutritional density of population of 440,998 per sq.km of land in the world.
D) Singapore has the highest percentage of arable land in the world.
5. Match List - I to List - II and answer the following using the codes given.
List -I List -II
a) Niger i) Lowest literacy rate
b) Singapore ii) Highest sex ratio
c) Burkina faso iii) Highest fertility rate
d) Latvia iv) Highest nutritional density
1 2 3 4
A) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
C) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
D) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
6. Consider the following statements and answer the right option from the given.
Statement: A large proportion of the world’s population growth occurs in less developed countries.
Reason: The less developed countries have high birth rate and low death rate.
a) Statement is right but reason is wrong. b) Statement is wrong but reason is right.
c) Both statement and reason are right. d) Both statement and reason are wrong.
7. Consider the following statements carefully and answer the right option from the given below. Brain
drain is concerned,
Statement –I. The receiving country is getting highly qualified labour.
Statement –II. Education and health costs are not paid back to the country of origin.
Statement –III. Receiving country is losing potential leaders and talent.
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a) Statement – I, II and III are right.
b) Statement – I, II and III are wrong.
c) Statement – I is right and statement –II and III are wrong.
d) Statement – I and II are right and statement III is wrong.
8. One among the given is not a solution to overpopulation.
a) Creating and Implementing National and Worldwide Multi-Media Overpopulation Awareness
Campaigns
b) Aiming for Single-Child Families.
c) Treating it as a National Security issue
d) Encouraging large family.
9. Odd one out.
a) Mexico has the largest number of emigrants in the world while According to estimates from the UN
2015 report, in 2013, the United States had the largest number of immigrants of any country
b) Qatar has the highest male to female ratio in the world while Latvia has highest female to male ratio in
the world.
c) Tripura has the highest literacy rate while Bihar has the lowest literacy rate in India.
d) Rise in Unemployment, Crime Rate, and Violence is due to under population.
10. All of the following statements are correct except,
a) India’s population is 17.74% of the total world population.
b) The population density in India is 350 per Km2 (1,180 people per mi2).
c) 33.2 % of the population is urban (449,945,237 people in 2018)
d) India ranks number 2 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.
2. Human Settlements
I. Choose the correct answer
1. Most anthropologists believe that hundreds of thousands of years ago humans first appeared in
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