INSIGHTS STATIC QUIZ 2020 - 21
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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
If men and women have equal population for all major age groups in a country, the population pyramid will tend to show
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Solution: a)
The base of the pyramid represents the population of the children. If it is thick or wide, it represents that children constitute a significant part of national population. The opposite if it is narrow. So, B and D deal with the population proportions of the children and aged and therefore and incorrect in this context.
Vertical symmetry reflects the fact that all age groups contain equal numbers of males and females.
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Solution: a)
The base of the pyramid represents the population of the children. If it is thick or wide, it represents that children constitute a significant part of national population. The opposite if it is narrow. So, B and D deal with the population proportions of the children and aged and therefore and incorrect in this context.
Vertical symmetry reflects the fact that all age groups contain equal numbers of males and females.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
What are the possible ways of increasing the human capital of a country?
- Invest in health expenditure
- Increase the population of the nation
Select the correct answer using the codes below.
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Solution: c)
Human capital can be increased in two important ways. One, that we increase the population and thus increase the labour force and second if the population is fixed or declining, increase expenditure on human resources. Health expenditure directly increases the supply of healthy labour force and is, thus, a source of human capital formation.
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Solution: c)
Human capital can be increased in two important ways. One, that we increase the population and thus increase the labour force and second if the population is fixed or declining, increase expenditure on human resources. Health expenditure directly increases the supply of healthy labour force and is, thus, a source of human capital formation.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
Malthusian trap is a situation in which
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Solution: a)
Malthusian catastrophe (also known as a Malthusian trap, population trap) occurs when population growth outpaces economic growth, causing famine or war, resulting in poverty and depopulation. Such a catastrophe inevitably has the effect of forcing the population to “correct” back to a lower, more easily sustainable level.
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Solution: a)
Malthusian catastrophe (also known as a Malthusian trap, population trap) occurs when population growth outpaces economic growth, causing famine or war, resulting in poverty and depopulation. Such a catastrophe inevitably has the effect of forcing the population to “correct” back to a lower, more easily sustainable level.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
“Sub Urbanisation” refers to
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Solution: b)
It is a new trend of people moving away from congested urban areas to cleaner areas outside the city in search of a better quality of living. Important suburbs develop around major cities and everyday thousands of people commute from their homes in the sub urbs to their work places in the city
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Solution: b)
It is a new trend of people moving away from congested urban areas to cleaner areas outside the city in search of a better quality of living. Important suburbs develop around major cities and everyday thousands of people commute from their homes in the sub urbs to their work places in the city
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
High fertility rate and high death rate lead to an age-sex pyramid of a nation which is of the shape of a
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Solution: a)
We are talking about the age sex pyramid of developing countries.
Base is broad because fertility rate is high. Top is narrow because death rate is high.
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Solution: a)
We are talking about the age sex pyramid of developing countries.
Base is broad because fertility rate is high. Top is narrow because death rate is high.
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