Top 50+ Solved Environment and Sociology MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Sex ratio means……………
a. difference between birth rate and death rate
b. number of females per thousand males
c. number of females per hundred males
d. the study of population growth
Q. Who was the exponent of optimum population theory ?
a. malthus
b. edwin cannan
c. adam smith
d. amarthyasen
Q. The term “development”
a. is useful because it is unambiguous – everyone understands what the word means.
b. is highly contested and embodies the politics of the user.
c. is change towards in a desired direction
d. all of the above
Q. If both fertility and mortality decline, then:
a. proportion of dependent children will increase
b. proportion of active population will increase
c. proportion of dependent aged will increase
d. proportion of dependent aged will decrease
Q. Largest component of internal migration in India is:
a. rural urban migration
b. urban rural migration
c. marriage migration
d. rural migration
Q. Who has said that ‘Democracy is concerned with the behaviour or the aggregate andnot with the behaviour of individual’
a. donald j bogue
b. peter r cox
c. h strenford
d. w g barclay
Q. Who postulated that fertility increases in response to the progress of society?
a. herbert spencer
b. corrado gini
c. e m hoover
d. c p blacker
Q. Human population can:
a. exist apart from cultural interaction
b. exist a part from social interaction
c. exist a part from social-cultural interaction
d. not exist apart from social-cultural interaction
Q. Low birth rate and pregnancy wastage in the population are primarily due to:
a. traditional practices
b. maternal malnutrition
c. female illiteracy
d. insufficient health care
Q. The term ‘political socialization’ was used by:
a. herbert hayman
b. herbert spencer
c. almond powell
d. easton and dannis
Q. The scientific study of population is known as ---------------
a. population studies
b. demography
c. population science
d. gerentology
Q. Which is the pull factor of Migration?
a. religious conversion
b. natural calamities
c. political disorder
d. employment opportunities
Q. A special type of bar chart that distributes the population by gender and age, and isgenerally used to illustrate the population structure of a society, is called a/an
a. analysis of variance
b. population pyramid
c. chi-square
d. multiple regression
Q. Is the state of a population where the number of births plus immigrants equals thenumber of deaths plus emigrants?
a. demographic echo
b. zero population growth
c. rebound
d. demographic transition