Population Geography (GeEs 3012)

Supportive Self – Check Exercise Questions for Exit Exam

Chapter One: Basic Concepts in Population Geography
1. As an umbrella concept population refers to
A. People B. Animals C. Plants D. all
2. Which of the following is not true about population geography?
A. It is the study of population in spatial perspective.
B. An investigation into human covering of the earth (both physical & cultural).
C. The area analysis of population (with wide ranging population attributes).
D. None
3. One of the following scholar is a forerunner to establish population geography as
an independent sub – field of human geography. Which one?
A. George B. John I. Clarke C. W. Zelinsky D. Trewartha
4. Among population data sources, which one is frequently employed in case of
financial constraints for conducting official counts in a given country?
A. Census B. Survey C. Vital registration D. Enumeration
5. Statistical population data analysis, interpretation & forecast is its major concern
A. Demography B. Sociology C. Economics D. Population Studies
6. Mr. “X” stayed out there for certain personal case and by chance involved in
official counting. If then, the technique by which he enumerated is
A. De jour B. De facto C. Canvasser D. Double – entry
7. From among essential features of census, the one fixed in census moment or
census time is
A. Sponsorship B. Periodicity C. Simultaneity D. Universality
8. Which one of the following is not the main concern of population geography?
A. Dynamics, size and distribution B. Structure C. Composition D. None
9. Which one of the following is wrongly paired?
A. Trewartha - area analysis of population.
B. John I. Clarke – population & culture relations.
C. Woods and Rees - equal emphasis on population dynamics. D. None
10. From among the salient features of census the one that relates to human right is
A. Comparability B. Universality C. Territoriality D. Sponsorship
11. The most serious factor affecting the quality of global population data is
A. Ignorance no population data.
B. Financial constraint. C. lack of common format for census. D. None

Chapter Two: Population Growth, Distribution and Density

1. Population change refers to

A. Social upliftment
B. Indices of a region's development
C. Demographic structure D. All
2. The demographic balancing or accounting equation doesn’t account for
A. Natural increase of population
B. Net migration rate C. Population growth rate D. None
3. Which one of the following is not true about population Doubling Time?
A. Low doubling time indicates high infrastructure demand.
B. High doubling time indicates low infrastructure demand.
C. It is poor measure for future population size projection. D. None
4. Trends in world’s Population Growth indicates that
A. Before 1800s, the world’s population grew steadily but slowly.
B. In the early 1970s, the world’s population experienced population explosion.
C. In 1999, less than 30 years later, the population doubled. D. all
5. Which of the following is not true about patterns of world population growth?
 A. The net increase in world population is observed in developing regions.
B. Low death and low birth rates in Europe.
C. High birth rates and death rates in Southeast Asia and South-central Asia.
D. Developed countries experience little or no population growth.
6. The global pattern of population distribution verifies
A. > 90 per cent of the world’s population lives in about 10 percent of the land.
B. Sixty per cent of the world’s people stay in just 10 countries.
C. Many more people live north of the Equator than south of the Equator.
D. All
7. Which one of the following is not true
A. Tropical and Temperate Savanna are thinly settled populated regions.
B. Half of the world population is clustered on just 5 per cent of the land.
C. About 33 per cent of earth’s total land area is virtually uninhabited.
D. Antarctica continent has no settlement at all.
8. From the perspective of factors affecting population distribution one is wrongly
paired. Which one?
A. Landforms - Ganga & Himalayas.
B. Soil - Hwang - He, Chang Jiang, Ganga and Brahmaputra.
C. Urbanization - Industrialization
D. Mineral and Energy sources - South Africa.
9. Which one of the following represent real prediction with regard to future global
population distribution?
A. Distribution of the world's population remain similar to the present pattern.
B. Sparsely populated areas have adverse climate and poor in resource potential.
C. New settlement in arid or hot and wet climates seem to be vague.
D. All
10. From among measures of population distribution and concentration one is the
best indicator of population and resource relationships. Which one?
A. Nutritional Density
B. Arithmetic Density C. Rural density D. Economic Density
11. Which one of the following best characterize the Lorenz curve?
A. It is a measure of population concentration or dispersion.
B. If the curve follows the diagonal, population is unevenly distributed.
C. If the curve coincides with the X-axis population is evenly distributed.
D. The degree of line of concavity departing form diagonal means even spread
of population.
12. An index that shows the relative concentration of two populations within a single
area is
A. Index of dissimilarity B. index of segregation C. Location quotient D. All

Chapter Three: Population Dynamics

1. One of the following is not a major components of population dynamics?

A. Fertility B. Mortality C. Migration D. Population Pyramid
2. Fertility doesn’t consider
A. Infertility B. Parity C. Gravidity D. None
3. The difference between fecund ability and infecundity is
A. The former means a woman is unable to conceive a pregnancy.
B. The latter refers to probability of a women to give birth.
C. The former means fertile and the latter infertile to conceive a pregnancy.
D. All