Test: Human Resources - 1 - UPSC MCQ

Fresh water is very important for people to drink, cook, and grow plants. Places with fresh water are popular because everyone needs water to live.

• Population composition refers to the structure of the population, which includes things like age, sex, literacy level, health condition, occupation, and income level. It's like looking at how many boys and girls are there, how old they are, and what they do. This helps us understand more about the people who live in a place.

• False! Plains are preferred over mountains for farming and manufacturing because they are more suitable for these activities.
• Plains have flat lands which make it easier to grow crops and build factories.
• Mountains, on the other hand, have rough and steep terrains, making it difficult to farm and set up industries.

• In simple words, this means that most of the people in the world live on a small part of the Earth. This is true because many areas like South and Southeast Asia, Europe, and northeastern North America are very crowded with people, while places like high mountains and tropical deserts have fewer people.

• So, the statement is True because a big chunk of the world's population lives on a small part of the land!

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

In an organisation initiating career planning, the career path model would essentially form the basis for Placement, Transfer and Rotation.

As human resources are unlimited resources they change in numbers as well as they have different characteristics.

Asia is the most populous continent, with its 4.54 billion inhabitants accounting for 60% of the world population. The world's two most populated countries, China and India, together constitute about 36% of the world's population.