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Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Settlements bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A geographer notes that people crowd into a tiny part of the earth. What share of world population lives on about 10 per cent of the land?Read the answer and worked solution →The ten most populous countries hold about 60 per cent of humanity. How many of them are in Asia?Read the answer and worked solution →Why are river valleys among the most densely populated areas?Read the answer and worked solution →The Ganga plains are crowded while the Himalayan zones are nearly empty. Which factor explains this?Read the answer and worked solution →The Katanga Zambia copper belt in Africa is densely populated. Which factor draws people there?Read the answer and worked solution →The Kobe-Osaka region of Japan is thickly populated because of what?Read the answer and worked solution →A town had 1,000 births and 600 deaths in a year with no migration. Its natural growth is:Read the answer and worked solution →The crude birth rate counts live births per how many people in a year?Read the answer and worked solution →A family leaves Bihar for Delhi. What is Bihar called in migration terms?Read the answer and worked solution →A person who moves into a new country is called an:Read the answer and worked solution →Unemployment, floods and epidemics drive people away from home. What are these called?Read the answer and worked solution →Better jobs, security and a pleasant climate that attract migrants are called:Read the answer and worked solution →When agriculture began about 12,000 to 8,000 years ago, roughly how large was world population?Read the answer and worked solution →Around 1750, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, world population was about:Read the answer and worked solution →It took a million years to reach one billion people. How long did it take to go from 5 to 6 billion?Read the answer and worked solution →What is India's annual population growth rate mentioned in the text?Read the answer and worked solution →Which theory says population moves from high births and deaths to low births and deaths as society develops?Read the answer and worked solution →In the first stage of demographic transition, why do people have many children?Read the answer and worked solution →In the last stage of demographic transition, what happens to fertility and mortality?Read the answer and worked solution →India's population rose from 102.70 crore in 2001 to 121.02 crore in 2011. What is the growth?Read the answer and worked solution →Which epidemic pushed up death rates and slowed growth in Africa and parts of the CIS?Read the answer and worked solution →Who argued in 1798 that population would outrun food supply, leading to famine, disease and war?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the pull factorsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the dense factorsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the population numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the demography termsRead the answer and worked solution →Push or pullRead the answer and worked solution →Stages of transitionRead the answer and worked solution →

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Questions
  1. Answer
    31
    Question
    Urbanisation percent in 2011, whole number
  2. Answer
    11
    Question
    Fold increase in urban population in the twentieth century
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    6
    Question
    Census classes of towns
  4. Answer
    53
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    Metropolitan cities or agglomerations
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    6
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    Mega cities in India
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    184
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    Greater Mumbai population in millions, times ten
Instructions
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_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 4, Human Settlements._

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Settlements bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Compact village of the northern plains.
    Item
    Clustered
  2. Clue
    Village split into panna, para, dhani.
    Item
    Hamleted
  3. Clue
    Isolated huts in hills and jungles.
    Item
    Dispersed
  4. Clue
    Town with over one lakh people.
    Item
    Class I
  5. Clue
    Over five million people.
    Item
    Mega city
  6. Clue
    City plus adjoining towns and outgrowths.
    Item
    UA
  7. Clue
    Gurugram and Ghaziabad round Delhi.
    Item
    Satellite
  8. Clue
    Ambala, Jalandhar, Mhow.
    Item
    Garrison
  9. Clue
    Industrial town after 1850.
    Item
    Jamshedpur
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 4, Human Settlements._

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A geographer notes that people crowd into a tiny part of the earth. What share of world population lives on about 10 per cent of the land?

  1. About 90 per cent
  2. About 50 per cent
  3. About 10 per cent
  4. About 30 per cent
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Correct answer: A. About 90 per cent

1. Population is unevenly distributed. 2. About 90 per cent of people live on 10 per cent of the land. 3. Asia has many empty places and a few crowded ones. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 2, The World Population._

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