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This set of Environment and Sociology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Environment And Sociology Set 1

Q1 | The number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a year is known as_____.
  • fecundity
  • fertility
  • crude birth rate
  • basic demographic equation
Q2 | An enumeration or counting of a population is referred to as
  • vital statistic
  • census
  • fertility rate c
  • growth rate
Q3 | Records of births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, gathered through a registrationsystem maintained by governmental units, are referred to as
  • census
  • demography
  • vital statistics
  • none of the above
Q4 | __________ is the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively lowbirthrates and death rates.
  • demographic transition
  • growth rate
  • demographic rate
  • morbidity
Q5 | Which one of the following has higher population density as compared to India?
  • canada
  • india
  • china
  • bangladesh
Q6 | the main cause for the high growth of our population is
  • decline of death rate
  • decrease in birth rate
  • rise in death rate
  • none of these
Q7 | The number of people in different age group is referred as
  • adolescent population
  • age composition
  • sex ratio
  • occupational structure
Q8 | What is the average sex ratio of India as per 2001 census?
  • 900
  • 933
  • 923
  • none of the above
Q9 | When did the national population policy came into effect?
  • 1952
  • 2001
  • 2000
  • 1947
Q10 | India occupies ---------- rank among the population of the different countries of theworld?
  • a. third
  • first
  • fourth
  • second
Q11 | Name the state having highest percentage of literacy level?
  • west bengal
  • punjab
  • kerala
  • maharashtra
Q12 | Which is the most populous country of the world?
  • a. russia
  • united states
  • china
  • india
Q13 | Which is the year that experienced great demographic divide in the history ofpopulation?
  • 1751
  • 1921
  • 1931
  • 1911
Q14 | Which of the following is the major concern about the study of population in acountry?
  • population size and distribution
  • characteristics of population
  • population growth and process of population change
  • all of the above
Q15 | The time span for the official enumeration of population to carry out census?
  • a. 1 years
  • 10 years
  • 2 years
  • 5 years
Q16 | Sex ratio means……………
  • difference between birth rate and death rate
  • number of females per thousand males
  • number of females per hundred males
  • the study of population growth
Q17 | Who was the exponent of optimum population theory ?
  • malthus
  • edwin cannan
  • adam smith
  • amarthyasen
Q18 | The term “development”
  • is useful because it is unambiguous – everyone understands what the word means.
  • is highly contested and embodies the politics of the user.
  • is change towards in a desired direction
  • all of the above
Q19 | If both fertility and mortality decline, then:
  • proportion of dependent children will increase
  • proportion of active population will increase
  • proportion of dependent aged will increase
  • proportion of dependent aged will decrease
Q20 | Largest component of internal migration in India is:
  • rural urban migration
  • urban rural migration
  • marriage migration
  • rural migration
Q21 | Who has said that ‘Democracy is concerned with the behaviour or the aggregate andnot with the behaviour of individual’
  • donald j bogue
  • peter r cox
  • h strenford
  • w g barclay
Q22 | Who postulated that fertility increases in response to the progress of society?
  • herbert spencer
  • corrado gini
  • e m hoover
  • c p blacker
Q23 | Human population can:
  • exist apart from cultural interaction
  • exist a part from social interaction
  • exist a part from social-cultural interaction
  • not exist apart from social-cultural interaction
Q24 | Low birth rate and pregnancy wastage in the population are primarily due to:
  • traditional practices
  • maternal malnutrition
  • female illiteracy
  • insufficient health care
Q25 | Who gave the concept of social capillarity?
  • a bose
  • l wirth
  • l dumont
  • r k mukherjee