Environment and Sociology Multiple Choice Questions
1. The number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a year is known as _____.
A. fecundity
B. fertility
C. crude birth rate
D. basic demographic equation
Answer: C. crude birth rate
2. An enumeration or counting of a population is referred to as
A. vital statistic
B. census
C. fertility rate c
D. growth rate
Answer: B. census
3. Records of births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units, are referred to as
A. census
B. demography
C. vital statistics
D. none of the above
Answer: C. vital statistics
4. __________ is the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
A. demographic transition
B. growth rate
C. demographic rate
D. morbidity
Answer: A. demographic transition
5. Which one of the following has higher population density as compared to India?
A. canada
B. india
C. china
D. bangladesh
Answer: D. bangladesh
6. the main cause for the high growth of our population is
A. decline of death rate
B. decrease in birth rate
C. rise in death rate
D. none of these
Answer: A. decline of death rate
7. The number of people in different age group is referred as
A. adolescent population
B. age composition
C. sex ratio
D. occupational structure
Answer: B. age composition
8. What is the average sex ratio of India as per 2001 census?
A. 900
B. 933
C. 923
D. none of the above
Answer: B. 933
9. When did the national population policy came into effect?
A. 1952
B. 2001
C. 2000
D. 1947
Answer: C. 2000
10. India occupies ———- rank among the population of the different countries of the world?
A. a. third
B. first
C. fourth
D. second
Answer: D. second
11. Name the state having highest percentage of literacy level?
A. west bengal
B. punjab
C. kerala
D. maharashtra
Answer: C. kerala
12. Which is the most populous country of the world?
A. a. russia
B. united states
C. china
D. india
Answer: C. china
13. Which is the year that experienced great demographic divide in the history of population?
A. 1751
B. 1921
C. 1931
D. 1911
Answer: B. 1921
14. Which of the following is the major concern about the study of population in a country?
A. population size and distribution
B. characteristics of population
C. population growth and process of population change
D. all of the above
Answer: B. characteristics of population
15. The time span for the official enumeration of population to carry out census?
A. a. 1 years
B. 10 years
C. 2 years
D. 5 years
Answer: B. 10 years
16. Sex ratio means……………
A. difference between birth rate and death rate
B. number of females per thousand males
C. number of females per hundred males
D. the study of population growth
Answer: B. number of females per thousand males
17. Who was the exponent of optimum population theory ?
A. malthus
B. edwin cannan
C. adam smith
D. amarthyasen
Answer: B. edwin cannan
18. The term “development”
A. is useful because it is unambiguous – everyone understands what the word means.
B. is highly contested and embodies the politics of the user.
C. is change towards in a desired direction
D. all of the above
Answer: C. is change towards in a desired direction
19. If both fertility and mortality decline, then:
A. proportion of dependent children will increase
B. proportion of active population will increase
C. proportion of dependent aged will increase
D. proportion of dependent aged will decrease
Answer: C. proportion of dependent aged will increase
20. Largest component of internal migration in India is:
A. rural urban migration
B. urban rural migration
C. marriage migration
D. rural migration
Answer: A. rural urban migration
21. Who has said that ‘Democracy is concerned with the behaviour or the aggregate and not with the behaviour of individual’
A. donald j bogue
B. peter r cox
C. h strenford
D. w g barclay
Answer: D. w g barclay
22. Who postulated that fertility increases in response to the progress of society?
A. herbert spencer
B. corrado gini
C. e m hoover
D. c p blacker
Answer: A. herbert spencer
23. Human population can:
A. exist apart from cultural interaction
B. exist a part from social interaction
C. exist a part from social-cultural interaction
D. not exist apart from social-cultural interaction
Answer: D. not exist apart from social-cultural interaction
24. Low birth rate and pregnancy wastage in the population are primarily due to:
A. traditional practices
B. maternal malnutrition
C. female illiteracy
D. insufficient health care
Answer: A. traditional practices
25. Who gave the concept of social capillarity?
A. a bose
B. l wirth
C. l dumont
D. r k mukherjee
Answer: C. l dumont
26. The term ‘political socialization’ was used by:
A. herbert hayman
B. herbert spencer
C. almond powell
D. easton and dannis
Answer: A. herbert hayman
27. The scientific study of population is known as —————
A. population studies
B. demography
C. population science
D. gerentology
Answer: B. demography
28. Which is the pull factor of Migration?
A. religious conversion
B. natural calamities
C. political disorder
D. employment opportunities
Answer: D. employment opportunities
29. A special type of bar chart that distributes the population by gender and age, and is generally used to illustrate the population structure of a society, is called a/an
A. analysis of variance
B. population pyramid
C. chi-square
D. multiple regression
Answer: B. population pyramid
30. Is the state of a population where the number of births plus immigrants equals the number of deaths plus emigrants?
A. demographic echo
B. zero population growth
C. rebound
D. demographic transition
Answer: B. zero population growth