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UPSC CDS Indian Demographics — practice questions — page 11

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Which is the only country to officially measure progress by Gross National Happiness?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the HDI partsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the pillarsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the development factsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the basic needsRead the answer and worked solution →Growth or developmentRead the answer and worked solution →Which pillarRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Human development bingoRead the answer and worked solution →City workers move to cleaner suburbs and commute daily. What is this trend called?Read the answer and worked solution →A petrol pump counts as a lower order function in the USA but as what in India?Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian census needs what share of male workers in non-farm jobs for a place to be urban?Read the answer and worked solution →Houses built very close together along a river valley form which settlement type?Read the answer and worked solution →In the loess areas of China, what kind of dwellings were important?Read the answer and worked solution →Villagisation in Ethiopia and canal colonies of the Indira Gandhi canal are examples of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Houses strung along a road, railway or canal form which village pattern?Read the answer and worked solution →A village grows where several roads converge, with houses along each road. Which pattern?Read the answer and worked solution →A settlement stretching on both banks of a river with a bridge is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Which city was the first to reach a population of one million, around AD 1810?Read the answer and worked solution →What share of the world's population lives in urban settlements today?Read the answer and worked solution →The minimum population for an urban place is 5,000 in India. What is it in Japan?Read the answer and worked solution →In Denmark, Sweden and Finland, a place is urban at what population?Read the answer and worked solution →Italy calls a settlement urban if over 50 per cent work outside farming. India sets this at?Read the answer and worked solution →In Brazil and Bolivia what makes any centre urban regardless of size?Read the answer and worked solution →New Delhi, Canberra, Beijing and Washington DC are classed as which kind of town?Read the answer and worked solution →Jerusalem, Mecca, Jagannath Puri and Varanasi are classed as which kind of town?Read the answer and worked solution →Broken Hill and Dhanbad are grouped under which town function?Read the answer and worked solution →The Ethiopian capital's name means New Flower. Which city is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which American landscape architect planned Canberra in 1912?Read the answer and worked solution →Who coined the term conurbation in 1915 for merged towns like Greater London?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which is the only country to officially measure progress by Gross National Happiness?

  1. Nepal
  2. Tibet
  3. Norway
  4. Bhutan
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Correct answer: D. Bhutan

1. Bhutan uses Gross National Happiness. 2. It weighs material progress against culture and environment. 3. It stresses non-material aspects. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 4, Human Development._

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Catch the HDI parts

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Items
  1. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Life expectancy
  2. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Adult literacy
  3. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Enrolment ratio
  4. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Purchasing power
  5. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Army size
  6. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Gold reserves
  7. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Land area
  8. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Rainfall
Category
HDI dimension
Instructions
Catch the things the HDI measures. Let the rest fall.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 4, Human Development._

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Pop the pillars

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Other terms
  1. Secrecy
  2. Inequality
  3. Waste
Matching terms
  1. Equity
  2. Sustainability
  3. Productivity
  4. Empowerment
Instructions
Pop the four pillars of human development.
_Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 4, Human Development._

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