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ICSE Class 8 Population — practice questions

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Population distribution refers to which characteristic?Read the answer and worked solution →To find people per sq km, what operation is needed?Read the answer and worked solution →A district has 9,000 people in 30 sq km. Its density is?Read the answer and worked solution →A boundary change doubles both population and area. What happens to density?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair gives a natural factor first and an economic factor second in settlement?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three components directly change an area's population size?Read the answer and worked solution →A crude birth rate counts annual live births per 1,000 of whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Which rate counts annual deaths per 1,000 people?Read the answer and worked solution →Annual births/mid-year population: A=1,000/100,000; B=500/20,000. Compare birth rates.Read the answer and worked solution →Natural increase comes from which balance?Read the answer and worked solution →A year has 180 births, 240 deaths and 200 arrivals. What is natural change?Read the answer and worked solution →Start: 1,000 people. Then 50 births, 20 deaths, 30 arrivals, 10 departures. Final total?Read the answer and worked solution →Which natural-change/net-migration pair gives an overall population decline?Read the answer and worked solution →Annual birth and death rates are 30 and 18 per 1,000. What is natural growth?Read the answer and worked solution →Annual birth/death rates per 1,000 fall from 30/20 to 25/10. Natural growth changes how?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the central resource problem in overpopulation?Read the answer and worked solution →Which suggests underpopulation relative to resources?Read the answer and worked solution →Each pair is people/resource capacity in people. Which exceeds its resource capacity?Read the answer and worked solution →Population stays 100; resource capacity rises from 80 to 120 people. Capacity changes how?Read the answer and worked solution →An age-and-sex breakdown records which feature of a population?Read the answer and worked solution →Ages 10–14: males are 6% and females 4% of the whole population. Combined share?Read the answer and worked solution →Village/city residence is which composition?Read the answer and worked solution →Total population doubles; children's share falls from 30% to 20%. Their number becomes?Read the answer and worked solution →Pyramid age-band totals use one % scale; 0–4 is wider than 65–69. What follows?Read the answer and worked solution →100 people move A to B. No births, deaths or outside moves. Combined A+B total changes by?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Population distribution refers to which characteristic?

  1. The yearly birth rate
  2. The age-sex structure
  3. The spread of people
  4. The people per sq km
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Correct answer: C. The spread of people

Distribution describes where people live across an area; density measures how many live per unit area.

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To find people per sq km, what operation is needed?

  1. Population ÷ area
  2. Area ÷ population
  3. Population + area
  4. Area × population
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Correct answer: A. Population ÷ area

Dividing population by area gives the number of people per unit area.

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A district has 9,000 people in 30 sq km. Its density is?

  1. 270 people/sq km
  2. 3,000 people/sq km
  3. 300 people/sq km
  4. 30 people/sq km
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Correct answer: C. 300 people/sq km

The density is 9,000 divided by 30, or 300 people per square kilometre.

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