Population, Migration, Demography, Ecology, Settlements, and Urbanization

1. Who expressed his views on population in his book ‘Essay, on the Principle of Population’?

  1. Thomas Robert Malthus
  2. Charles Darwin
  3. Adam Smith
  4. Warren Thompson
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Answer: Option A. Thomas Robert Malthus

2. Who proposed the Theory of Demographic Transition from among the following?

  1. Charles Darwin
  2. Thomas Malthus
  3. Adam Smith
  4. Frank W. Notestein
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Answer: Option D. Frank W. Notestein

3. From among these statements, which one(s) accurately describe(s) Malthus’s theory about population?

  1. He advocated for ‘preventive’ and ‘positive’ checks on population growth such as late marriage.
  2. He believed that food production grows exponentially while human populations increase in an arithmetic progression.
  3. He opposed post-marital birth control.

Choose the correct code from the options below:

  1. All are correct
  2. Only first statement is correct
  3. Only first and second statement is correct
  4. Only first and third statement is correct
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Answer: Option D. Only first and third statement is correct

4. Which demographic transition stage is referred to as the stationary population stage?

  1. First Stage
  2. Fourth Stage
  3. Second Stage
  4. Third stage
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Answer: Option B. Fourth Stage

5. Which of the following pairs of stages of population growth and their characteristics is/are correctly matched?

  1. First stage – Stage of high birth and death rates.
  2. Second stage – Stage of decreasing birth rate and low death rate.
  3. Third stage – Stage with high birth rate but low death rate.
  4. Fourth stage – Stage with both low birth and death rates.

Choose the correct code from the options below:

  1. 1 & 4
  2. 2 & 3
  3. Only 4
  4. All are incorrect
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Answer: Option A. 1 & 4