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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, BHUBANESWAR.
Class VIII: SOCIAL STUDIES – GEOGRAPHY
CHAPTER - 6- Human Resource

Multiple Choice Questions

(NOTE: - Choose the correct option and put a tick mark.)

Q1. In which year HRD Ministry was created with an aim to improve people’s skills? …

a) 1975
b) 1965
c) 1995
d) 1985

Q2. Sixty per cent of the world’s people stay in just ________ countries.

a) Twenty
b) Five
c) Ten
d) Fifteen

Q3. Which one of the following fertile soil can support more population than the desert, mountain
and laterite soils?

a) Red

b) Black

c) Sandy
d) Alluvial

Q4. How many per cent of the world’s total population live in about 30 per cent of the total land
surface?

a) Ninety
b) Hundred
c) Seventy
d) Eighty

Q5. According to the density of population, we can roughly divide the world into________ …

a) Moderately populated
b) Sparsely populated
c) Thickly populated
d) All a. , b. and c are correct

Q6. Who studies different aspects of population like birth, death and migration? …