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Human Resources Questions and Answers AP 8th Class Social Geography 6th Lesson
Question 1.
Answer the following questions.
i) Why are people considered a resource?
Answer:
- People are a nation’s greatest resource.
- Nature’s bounty becomes significant only when people find it useful.
- People with their demands and abilities they can create into new resources.
- Healthy, educated and motivated people develop resources as per their requirements.
- Human resources like other resources are not equally distributed over the world.
- They differ in their educational levels, age and sex. Their numbers and characteristics also keep changing.
- Technology progress depend up on skilled people.
- Skilled, spirited and hope full young people are the future of the nation.
ii) What are the causes for the uneven distribution of population in the world ?
Answer:
- The way in which people are spread across the earth surface is known as the pattern of population distribution.
- Now more than 90 per cent of the world’s population lives in about 30 per cent of the land surface.
- In some areas are very crowded and some are sparely populated.
- Almost three-quarters of the world’s people live in two continents, Asia and Africa.
- Sixty per cent of the world’s people stay in just 10 countries. All of them have more than a 100 million people.
The following are various factors responsible for uneven distribution of population in the world:
6. Geographical Factors:
- Topography: People always prefer to live on plains these areas are suitable for farming, manufacturing and service activities. The Ganga plains are the most densely populated areas of the world.
- Climate: People usually avoid extreme climates that are very hot or very cold.
- Soil: Fertile soils provide suitable land for agriculture. Fertile plains such as Ganga and Brahmaputra in India, Hwang-He, Chang Jiang in China and the Nile in Egypt are densely populated.
- Water resources : The river valleys of the world are densely populated.
- Minerals : Areas with mineral deposits are more populated.
7. Social and Cultural Factors : Areas of better housing, education and health facilities are more densely populated. Places with religion or cultural significance attract people. Varanasi, Jerusalem and Vatican City are some examples.
8. Economic Factors : Industrial areas provide employment opportunities. Large number of people are attracted to these areas. Osaka in Japan and Mumbai in India are two densely populated areas.
iii) The world population has grown very rapidly. Why?
Answer:
In 1804, the world’s population reached one billion. In 1959, the world’s population reached 3 billion. This is often called population explosion. In 1999, 40 years later, the population doubled to 6 billion. The main reason for this growth was that with better food supplies and medicine and health care facilities were developed, deaths were reducing, while the number of births still remained fairly high.
iv) Discuss the role of any two factors influencing population change.
Answer:
- Births and deaths are the natural causes of population change.
- Birth rate is the number of births per 1,000 people.
- Death rate is the number of deaths per 1,000 people.
- When the birth rate is higher than the death rate, it means that the population is increasing.
- When the death rate is more than the birth rate, it means that the population is decreasing.
- The birth rate and death rates affect the balance of population.
v) What is meant by population composition?
Answer:
Population composition refers to the structure of the population.
The composition of population helps us to know how many are males or females, which age group they belong to, how educated they are and what type of occupations they are employed in, what their income levels and health conditions.
vi) What are population pyramids? How do they help in understanding about the population of a country?
Answer:
- The graphical representation used to study the composition of a country’s population is called the population pyramid.
- The population pyramid interesting way of studying the population composition of a country.
- The population pyramid also called an age-sex pyramid.
- A population pyramid shows., the people occupations and what their income levels and health conditions.
- The population pyramid total population divide into various age groups it’s also subdivided into males and females.
- The age group details help in determining the number of dependents and the economically active citizens present in the population.
- When the population of a country has high birth and death rates, the population pyramid is broad at the base and narrow towards the top.
- Population pyramid very easily analysis the population nature in a country.
Question 2.
Tick the correct answer.
i) Which does the term population distribution refer to? (c)
a) How population in a specified area changes over time.
b) The number of people who die in relation to the number of people born in a specified area.
c) The way in which people are spread across a given area.
ii) Which are three main factors that cause population change? (b)
a) Births, deaths and marriage.
b) Births, deaths and migration
C) Births, deaths and life expectancy
iii) In 1999, the world population reached (c)
a) 1 billion
b) 3 billion
c) 6 billion
iv) What is a population pyramid? (a)
a) A graphical presentation of the age, sex composition of a population.
b) When the population density of an area is so high that people live in tall buildings.
c) Pattern of population distribution in large urban areas.
Question 3.
Complete the sentences below using some of the following words.
| Sparsely, favourable, fallow, artificial, fertile, natural, extreme, densely |
When people are attracted to an area, it becomes ………… populated. Factors that influence this include …………. climate; good supplies of ……….. resources and ………….. land.
Answer:
When people are attracted to an area, it becomes densely populated. Factors that influence this include favourable clftnate; good supplies of natural resources and fertile land.
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Question 4.
Discuss the characteristics of a society with “too many under 15s and one with “too few under 15s”.
Hint: need for schools; pension schemes, teachers, toys, wheel chairs, labour supply, hospitals.
Answer:
In a country age composition of a population determines the kind of facilities a government has to provide for its citizens. If a country has ‘too many under 15s’, it means that Government has to ensure adequate facilities of schools, teachers, playgrounds etc. Such a population will provide more scope for toys or sports industry. It could have less labour supply. If a country has too few under 15s, it implies that it has more adult population which will require more pension schemes, hospitals, etc. Such population will for pharmaceutical or medical equipment industries. It would also have high youth population which means government has to create enough employment opportunities.
AP 8th Class Social Geography 6th Lesson InText Questions and Answers Human Resources
Question 1.
Locate and label these countries on the outline map of the world.
Question 2.
Look at the given figure find out: of these countries how many are in Asia? Colour them on a world map.
Answer:
Japan
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Indonesia
India
China are in Asian continent.
Question 3.
Study the given figure and find out : of the world’s total population which continent has-
(a) only 5 per cent
(b) only 13 per cent
(c) only 1 per cent
(d) only 12 per cent
Answer:
a) North America
b) Africa
c) Oceania
d) Europe
Question 4.
Think: Every human being is potential resource for the society. What will be your contribution as a human resource?
Answer:
Every human resources can contribute to the growth of the nation in different domains, we could contribute in the field of agriculture, education, technology, services, industry, manufacturing, trade, tourism, etc., and develop the nation and help it to reach great heights.