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1. A country has 24 million people living on 80,000 square kilometres of land. What is its population density?
  1. 30 persons per square kilometre
  2. 240 persons per square kilometre
  3. 300 persons per square kilometre
  4. 3,000 persons per square kilometre

Answer: C. 300 persons per square kilometre

Population density is population divided by land area, so 24,000,000 / 80,000 = 300 persons per square kilometre.

2. A trained accountant leaves accounting to work as a school administrator. This is an example of
  1. occupational mobility of labour
  2. geographical mobility of labour
  3. seasonal unemployment
  4. division of labour

Answer: A. occupational mobility of labour

Occupational mobility occurs when a worker moves from one type of job or occupation to another.

3. On a family farm, several extra workers can be removed without reducing total output. This situation is best described as
  1. frictional unemployment
  2. structural unemployment
  3. seasonal unemployment
  4. disguised unemployment

Answer: D. disguised unemployment

Disguised unemployment exists when some workers add little or nothing to output and can be withdrawn without reducing production.

4. A major soil-related benefit of allowing a cultivated plot to lie fallow is that it
  1. guarantees a higher market price for crops
  2. allows soil fertility to recover
  3. eliminates the need for farm labour
  4. prevents all crop pests from surviving

Answer: B. allows soil fertility to recover

Fallowing gives the soil time to recover nutrients and fertility before it is cultivated again.

5. When a new food-processing factory buys more locally grown crops as inputs, it creates a backward linkage by
  1. reducing the demand for agricultural products
  2. replacing all services with manufacturing
  3. increasing demand for supplies from an upstream sector
  4. transferring ownership of farms to consumers

Answer: C. increasing demand for supplies from an upstream sector

A backward linkage arises when an industry increases its demand for inputs supplied by sectors earlier in the production chain.

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