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UPSC CDS Indian Demographics — practice questions — page 8

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The largest urban agglomeration, with 18.4 million people, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the mega citiesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the village typesRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the settlement wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Rural or urbanRead the answer and worked solution →Which age of townRead the answer and worked solution →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 →

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The largest urban agglomeration, with 18.4 million people, is:

  1. Delhi capital
  2. Kolkata city
  3. Chennai city
  4. Greater Mumbai
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Correct answer: D. Greater Mumbai

1. Six mega cities exist. 2. One tops them all. 3. That is Greater Mumbai. _Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 4, Human Settlements._

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Catch the mega cities

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Items
  1. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Mumbai
  2. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Delhi
  3. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Kolkata
  4. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Chennai
  5. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Bengaluru
  6. Matches the category
    Yes
    Item
    Hyderabad
  7. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Bhopal
  8. Matches the category
    No
    Item
    Shillong
  9. Matches the category
    No
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    Mhow
  10. Matches the category
    No
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    Jharia
Category
Mega city
Instructions
Catch India's mega cities. Let the smaller towns fall.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 4, Human Settlements._

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Pop the village types

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Other terms
  1. Orbital
  2. Floating
  3. Vertical
Matching terms
  1. Clustered
  2. Semi-clustered
  3. Hamleted
  4. Dispersed
Instructions
Pop the four types of rural settlement.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 4, Human Settlements._

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