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The difference between birth and death rates, when expressed in percentage, is known as the _____.

  1. Growth rate

  2. Index

  3. Rise

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The difference between birth and death rates gives the natural increase of population of regions. When expressed in percentage it is known as the growth rate. The annual growth rate of Tamil Nadu's population is 1.1% which is lower than that of India.

The annual growth rate of Tamil Nadu's population is 1.1% which is lower than that of _____.

  1. Karnataka

  2. Andhra Pradesh

  3. Kerala

  4. India


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The difference between birth and death rates gives the natural increase of population of regions. When expressed in percentage it is known as the growth rate. The annual growth rate of Tamil Nadu's population is 1.1% which is lower than that of India.

Which type of physical region supports a huge population?

  1. Plateau

  2. Desert

  3. Plains and coastal plains

  4. Hilly region


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Generally, plains with suitable climate support a huge population. Coastal plains with mild temperatures and good opportunities for economic activities also support huge populations.

Women empowerment includes _____.

  1. Women's sense of self-worth

  2. Right to seek and decide upon choices

  3. Right to have access to opportunities and resources

  4. Right to have control on their lives

  5. All of these


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Women's empowerment has five components:  women's sense of self-worth, their right to have and to determine choices, their right to have access to opportunities and resources, their right to have the power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home, and their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally. 

Which district of Tamil Nadu has the lowest literacy rate?

  1. Thuthukudi

  2. Dharmapuri

  3. Coimbatore

  4. Chennai


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Dharmapuri district
Among the districts in Tamil Nadu, Kaniyakumari district has reported the highest literacy rate of 92.14 per cent while Dharmapuri district accounts for the lowest rate of 64.71 per cent. Among the males, 86.81 per cent are literates whereas among the females the rate is 73.86 per cent.

A  Self-Help Group is a group of _____ organised for eradication of poverty.

  1. Men

  2. Women

  3. Children

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A  Self-Help Group is a group formed by the community women. It has specific number of members like 15 or 20. In such a group the poorest women would come together for emergency, disaster, social reasons, economic support to each other, social interaction and economic interaction. Self Help Groups enable them to increase their income, improve their standard of living and status in society. It acts as a catalyst for bringing this section of society to the main stream.

Human resource management aims at ______.

  1. Developing personal enmity in an individual

  2. Developing equalities among individuals

  3. Developing personal qualities in an individual

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Human resource management aims at developing personal qualities in an individual. Human resource development professionals provide programs to orient, train and develop personnel by improving skills, knowledge, capabilities and competencies required to perform well on the job. By offering programs designed to promote personal and professional career growth, they enable organizations to improve efficiency, productivity and profitability.

Which district of Tamil Nadu has the highest literacy rate?

  1. Kanyakumari

  2. Thuthukudi

  3. Dharmapuri

  4. Chennai


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The literacy rate in Tamil Nadu has touched a new high at 80.33 per cent. This is much higher than the country's average of 74.04 per cent, according to Census 2011. Among the districts in Tamil Nadu, Kaniyakumari district has reported the highest literacy rate of 92.14 per cent

There are more females than males in _____ districts of Tamil Nadu.

  1. 9

  2. 13

  3. 15

  4. 18


Correct Option: C

Madurai, Kancheepuram, Thiruvallur, Kanyakumari and Chennai are the districts of _____ population.

  1. Low density

  2. Medium density

  3. High density

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Madurai, Kancheepuram, Thiruvallur, Kanyakumari and Chennai are the districts of High Density population.

Tamil Nadu with a total population of 81.5 million (2019) is one of the well developed states in South India. In 2018, the state population was recorded to be 80,351,195. The state adds over 1.2 million people to its current population every year.

___________ has the highest percent of literates in the Tamil Nadu.

  1. Karur

  2. Kanniakumari

  3. Chennai

  4. Perambalur


Correct Option: B

According to the census of India 2011, life expectancy in India is ______________.

  1. 66 years

  2. 65 years

  3. 66.1 years

  4. 67 years


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

According to the census of India 2011,life expectancy in India is 66.1 years.

The district which has the lowest density of population is ____________.

  1. Sivagangai

  2. Nilgris

  3. Kanyakumari

  4. Thiruvallur


Correct Option: B

The term "Siddha" often heard in news is _______________.

  1. Wireless internet service

  2. A type of exercise

  3. A system of medicine.

  4. Name of a district in West Bengal.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

siddha is a system of traditional medicine originating in ancient Tamilakam in South India.

The term human resource means ___________________.

  1. the resource which human used

  2. the resource available for human

  3. population of a country

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: C

Consider the following statements
1.The national rural health mission operates in the rural sector.
2. The national urban health mission provides improved health services to the residents of urban slums and other marginalized people in towns with a population of more than 30,000.

Which of the above statements are correct? 

  1. 1 only

  2. 2 only

  3. both 1 and 2

  4. neither 1 nor 2


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The national rural health mission operates in the rural sector while the national urban health mission provides improved health services to the residents of urban slums and other marginalized people in towns with a population of more than 50,000.

According to the census of India 2011 the life expectancy of male and female is

  1. 64.6 years for male and 67.7 years for female.

  2. 67.7 years for male and 64.6 years for female.

  3. 68 years for male and 65 years for female.

  4. 65 years for male and 68 years for female.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

According to the census of India 2011 the life expectancy of male and female is 64.6 years and 67.7 years respectively.

The economic strength of a country is measured by the development of its _______.

  1. Manufacturing industries

  2. Agricultural activities

  3. Banking services

  4. Small scale industries


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The economic strength of a country is measured by the development of its Manufacturing industries.
The economic strength of a country lies in the development of manufacturing industries because : (i) Manufacturing industries help in modernizing agriculture. (ii) This sector transforms raw materials into finished products creating more choices for the consumers and making it more prosperous.

 Economic development is characterized by _____________________.

  1. Structural change in the economy

  2. Change in the occupational structure

  3. Both a and b

  4. none of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Development is a sustained effort. Economic development of any nation can be characterized by the following:

  1. Increases in output or production has to be sustained over a long period of time.
  2. Changes in economic structure would spread out in the entire economy. 
  3. Growth has to be accompanied by an increase in efficiency.

Which of the following explains the term economic development?

  1. Improvement in the technology involved

  2. Improvement in production

  3. Improvement in distribution system

  4. All the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Which of the following is the currency of Philippines, which is undergoing three year economic programme drawn up with I.M.F.?

  1. Peso

  2. Ngultram

  3. Rufiyaa

  4. France

  5. Pula


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Philippine peso
The Philippine peso (currency code: PHP) is the official currency of the Philippines. The colorful notes come in denominations of 10 (not common), 20, 50, 100, 200 (not common), 500, and 1,000. The peso is further divided into 100 centavos, however, you'll rarely deal with or encounter these fractional amounts.

An underdeveloped economy is characterized by _______.

  1. State of deprivation of large proportion of population

  2. Large proportion of labor force in the tertiary sector

  3. Both a and b

  4. none of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
  • Underdeveloped countries face the problem of deprivation of large section of the population, low per capita real income etc.
  • Underdevelopment is low level of development characterized by low real per capita income, widespread poverty, lower level of literacy, low life expectancy and underutilisation of resources etc. 
  • The state in underdeveloped economy fails to provide acceptable levels of living to a large fraction of its population, thus resulting into misery and material deprivations.

Population in Tamil Nadu has __________ over a period of 60 years from 1951 to 2011.

  1. Increased

  2. Doubled

  3. Decreased

  4. No change


Correct Option: A

The term "Unani" often heard in news is

  1. A wireless network service

  2. A district in Uttar Pradesh

  3. A system of medicine

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: C

With which activity is the wall street is New York, U.S.A. associated?

  1. Films

  2. Banking & Finance

  3. Defence

  4. Literary arts


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

When are women paid for their work?

  1. When they work for their family members

  2. When they enter the labour market

  3. When they do hard work

  4. Whey they get high education


Correct Option: B

The population of Tamil Nadu has _____ over a period of 60 years from 1951 to 2011.

  1. Doubled

  2. Tripled

  3. Tumbled

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The population of Tamil Nadu has doubled over a period of 60 years from 1951 to 2011.

According to 2011 Census, the population of Tamil Nadu was about _____.

  1. 6,98,936

  2. 7,21,38,958

  3. 8,01,38,916

  4. 8,18,38,913


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

As per 2011 Census, the population of Tamil Nadu was about 7,21,38,958 of which 3,61,58,871 was males and 3,59,80,087 was females. Tamil Nadu as a whole has 5.96% of the total national population.

Scarcity of capital, technological backwardness and unemployment are generally found in ___________.

  1. developed countries

  2. underdeveloped countries

  3. developing

  4. none


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

  • The underdeveloped countries are characterized by:
  1.  Low per capita income 
  2.  High rate of capital formation 
  3.  High dependency figure 
  4.  Working force largely in the primary sector 

 Consider the following statements and identify the right ones.

  1. COR is relatively low in labour intensive sectors.

  2. COR will be high in capital intensive sectors

  3. Both a and b

  4. none of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The labour intensive sector is the one in which large amount of labour is required by any industry for the production of goods whereas capital intensive sector is the one in which a huge capital invesment is required by the industry to produce goods. Labour intensive includes restuarants, agriculture etc whereas oil production and refining, railways etc. Thus COR is high in capital intensive and low in labour intensive.

Tamil Nadu as a whole has _____ of the total national population.

  1. 4.67%

  2. 5.09%

  3. 5.96%

  4. 6.36%


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

As per 2011 Census, the population of Tamil Nadu was about 7,21,38,958 of which 3,61,58,871 was males and 3,59,80,087 was females. Tamil Nadu as a whole has 5.96% of the total national population.

Which of the following denotes an underdeveloped economy?

  1. High level of inequalities

  2. Low level of capital productivity

  3. A relatively closed economy

  4. All of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
  • Underdeveloped economy is characterized by:
  1.  Low per capita income 
  2.  High rate of capital formation 
  3.  High dependency figure 
  4.  Working force largely in the primary sector.

Which of the following about strategy of balanced growth is right?

  1. Simultaneous investment in all sectors

  2. All sectors are independent

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
  • Balanced growth doctrine advocates simultaneous investment in a number of industries. 
  • The balanced growth aims at the development of all sectors simultaneously but unbalanced growth recommends that the investment should be made only in leading sectors of the economy.

consider the following statements
1. Human resource has quantitative as well as qualitative features.
2. Size of population,growth of population and health care are quantitative features.
3. Birth rate,age structure and sex ratio are qualitative features.

Which of the above statements are correct?

  1. 1 only

  2. 1 and 2 only

  3. 2 and 3 only

  4. 1,2 and 3 only.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Human resource has two parts- quantitative and qualitative. While size of population and growth of population are quantitative part but health care comes under the qualitative part.
Birth rate, age structure and sex ratio come under quantitative part.

The human development index(HDI) is used to measure human development of a particular country. In order to calculate it takes in to account _________________.

  1. Life expectancy

  2. Education index

  3. Income index

  4. All of the above.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

the human development index takes into account three dimensions to calculate human development of a country. The dimensions are-1 Life expectancy
                                                                           2 Education index
                                                                           3 Income index.

Consider the following statements-
1. The Integrated child development scheme(ICDS) ensures integrated development of children upto 6 years only.
2. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(SSA) ensures universal primary education to all and to improve educational facilities.

Which of the above statements are correct?

  1. 1 only

  2. 2 only

  3. both 1 and 2

  4. neither 1 nor 2


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The statement 2 is correct. For the statement 1, The integrated child development scheme not only ensures integrated development of children upto 6 years but also provides healthcare for pregnant and lactating women.

Consider the following statements-
 
1.The branch of social science that analyses the population,the change in its size,its structural aspects,etc is known as demography.
2.Size of population refers to the total number of people residing in a country at a particular time.

Which of the above statements are wrong? 

  1. 1 only

  2. 2 only

  3. both 1 and 2

  4. neither 1 nor 2


Correct Option: D

Consider the following about Rashtriya Madhyamik Sikhshya abhiyan..
1. It ensures access to primary education.
2. It improves educational facilities.

Which of the above statements are correct?

  1. 1 only

  2. 2 only

  3. both 1 and 2

  4. neither 1 nor 2


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

the statement 2 is correct while in statement 1. it ensures access to primary education.

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