MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS:

CLASS 8 GEOGRAPHY CHAPTER 6. HUMAN RESOURCES MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS:

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: (MCQ’s)

1. ___________ is the movement of people in and out of an area.
(a) Emigration
(b) Migration
(c) Immigration
(d) Shifting

2. _________ are people who leave a country.
(a) Immigrants
(b) Migrants
(c) Emigrants
(d) People

3. _____ density is the number of people living in a unit area of the earth’s surface.
(a) Earth
(b) Surface
(c) Square
(d) Population

4. ___________ cent of the world’s people stay in just 10 countries.
(a) Seven per
(b) Sixty per
(c) Two per
(d) One per

5. Kenya has high population _________ rates.
(a) Growth
(b) Death
(c) Birth
(d) High

6. Almost _______of the world’s population live in two continents Asia and Africa.
(a) One-quarters
(b) Two-quarters
(c) Three-quarters
(d) Four- quarters

7. Population growth is slowing because of both low death rates and __________.
(a) Birth rates
(b) Death rates
(c) Growth rates
(d) Average rate

8. People vary greatly in their age, sex, literacy health condition and occupation and ___________.
(a) Annual level
(b) Growth level
(c) High level
(d) Income level

9. The shape of the population _____tells the story of the people living in country.
(a) Triangle
(b) Square
(c) Pyramid
(d) Rectangular

10. Decreased _________ rates allow numbers of the people to reach old age.
(a) Birth
(b) Growth
(c) People
(d) Death.

11. The highest density of the population in the world is in ______
(a) Europe
(b) South America
(c) South central Asia
(d) none of these

12. Which of the following is not the region where very few people live?
(a) High altitudes areas
(b) Plains
(c) High mountains
(d) Equatorial forest area

13.The average density of world’s population is _____
(a) 10 persons per square kilometre
(b) 80 persons per square kilometre
(c) 20 persons per square kilometre
(d) 51 persons per square kilometre

14. Movement of people in. and out of an area is called ______
(a) Migration
(b) Death rate
(c) Birth rate
(d) Growth rate

15. How have USA and Australia gained in respect of population growth?
(a) By immigration
(b) By tourism
(c) By both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these

16. Which of the following countries has slow growth rate of population?
(a) India
(b) Pakistan
(c) United Kingdom
(d) Brazil

17. Which country has high population growth rate?
(a) Pakistan
(b) Kenya
(c) India
(d) China

18. Human resources differ from one another in respect of _____
(a) Educational level
(b) Age
(c) Sex
(d) All of these
19.______are a set of people who make up the work force of an organisation

(a) Politicians
(b) Leaders
(c) Human Resources
(d) Ministers

20. It is people with their skills and abilities that turn them into a ____

(a) Job
(b) Asset
(c) Resource
(d) None of these

1. (b) Migration
2. (c) Emigrants
3. (d) Population
4. (b) Sixty per
5. (a) Growth
6. (c) Three-quarters
7. (a) Birth rates
8. (d) Income level
9. (c) Pyramid
10.(a) Death.
11.(c) South central Asia
12.(b) Plains
13.(d) 51 persons per square kilometre
14.(a) Migration
15.(a) By immigration
16.(c) United Kingdom
17.(b) Kenya
18.(d) All of these
19.(c) Human Resources
20.(c) Resource

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