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E. Answer the following questions.

1. What are known as human resources?
2. What are problems faced in planning of human resources?
3. List the factors that influence the distribution of population.

4. What is sex ratio?
5. What components of human resources are generally stated?
6. What is known as sex composition? Give an example of adverse sex ratio of India.

7. How is literacy related to population growth and its distribution? State in the context of
world literacy levels.
8. What is known as population density? State its chief features with respect to India.
9. What is called population changes? Explain its three main components.
10. State the causes of India’s high population growth rate.

H TS Questions
H TS Questions
A. Why do you think human beings are considered a resource?
B. Why do you think people mostly migrate from rural to urban areas?

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Activity
A. Collect information about all important attributes of India’s population. Make a project
report.

B. On a outline map of world and India mark the distribution of population density.

C. Visit a Panchayat Ghar/Municipal office and find out how they record births and deaths in
the locality. Write how it helps in planning human resources.
D. Make a through study of factors responsible for rapid growth of India’s population. Suggest
measures to check this rapid growth.

Value Based Question
Value Based Question
Get into two groups and have an intra class debate on the topic “Population— A Boon or Curse.”
Why do you think Uttar Pradesh has more population density than Rajasthan?

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