Age and Sex Pyramid

Q.

What are population pyramids? How do they help in understanding the population of a country?

Q. As a percentage of the total population, Brazil has more young people than India.

1. False
2. True

Q. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> What are the elements of population pyramid?

1. Population growth rate
2. Year
3. Population percentage
4. Age

Q. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> How does the population pyramid help in understanding the population?

1. Give information about age groups
2. Identify the proportion of children, adult and elderly
3. Give information about occupation
4. Give information about death rate

Q. In a given age and sex pyramid, a broader base indicates a relatively larger proportion ofpeople.

1. younger
2. older
3. working class

Q. I plotted the age and sex population graph. But there were bars of unequal lengths. What do you think the length of these bars represents?

1. Age category
2. Sex ratio
3. Growth rate
4. Number of individuals in an age group

Q. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> The ______ provides information about the percentage of people living in urban areas.

1. population graph
2. population pyramid
3. migration pyramid
4. migration graph

Q. This is a projection of the age-sex pyramid of Japan. What can we say about it?

1. Japan's working-age population would be higher than its older population.
2. Japan will have a much more significant proportion of young people in comparison with its older population.
3. In the 75-79 age bracket, there will be more males than females in Japan's population.
4. Japan will have a lot more older people than working-age people or children.

Q. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> How does the population pyramid help in understanding the population?

1. Give information about age groups
2. Identify the proportion of children, adult and elderly
3. Give information about occupation
4. Give information about death rate

Q. What does the length of each bar in an age and sex pyramid represent?

1. Total number of male individuals
2. Number of individuals in a specific age group
3. Total number of female individuals
4. Age group

Q. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Select the statements that are true regarding age-population pyramid.

1. The bars represent the population.
2. The two sections on either side of the central axis are for working and non-working category.
3. The length of the bar represents the number of individuals in age group.
4. Broader base means relatively larger proportion of young people

Q. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Statement 1 (S1): In age and sex pyramid graph, broader base represents more young people; Statement 2 (S2): In age and sex pyramid graph, narrow top indicates less old people.

1. S1 and S2 are true
2. S1 and S2 are false
3. S1 is true, S2 is false
4. S1 is false, S2 is true

Q. India's youth population is more than its elderly population.

1. True
2. False

Q. Given below is a typical 'Age-Sex Pyramid'. Label the parts of the pyramid in accordance with information it provides.

1. Percentage of female proportion
2. Age Group
3. Percentage of population
4. Percentage of male proportion