Population: Part 2
46 Maharashtra HSC Class 12 Geography previous year questions (PYQs) from 7 papers, 2024 to 2026, with answers and worked solutions.
About this chapter
- Difficulty: 9 easy · 36 moderate · 1 hard.
- Most-asked subtopics: Age Structure and Population Pyramids (14), Literacy and Education (12), Occupational Structure (7).
- Updated 24 September 2026.
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- Set · 1 questionComplete the chain and rewrite in your answer paper :
No. 'A' 'B' 'C' (1) Amazon River basin (1) Manufacturing Activities (1) Tata Iron and Steel Industries. (2) Constrictive Pyramid (2) Commercial cattle rearing (2) Low population density. (3) Industrial Region (3) Individual (3) Low birth rate and least death rate. (4) Pampas Grassland (4) Dense equatorial Forest (4) South America (5) Private (5) More old age Population (5) Availability of Employment #1ModerateAge Structure and Population Pyramids
- Set · 1 questionGive geographical reasons (Any FOUR) :
#2ModerateLiteracy and Education
- Set · 5 questionsRead the following map/graphs and answer the questions given below : The bar graph is titled 'INDIA : Occupational Structure (Primary Service Sector)', drawn to a scale of 1 cm = 10%. Its index carries two bars, Cultivator and Agricultural Labours. Percentage runs up the Y-axis from 0 to 60 and the census years run along the X-axis.
Year Cultivator (%) Agricultural Labours (%) 1951 50 20 1961 53 17 1971 43 26 1981 42 25 1991 28 18 #3EasyOccupational Structure
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- Set · 1 questionDraw neat, labelled diagrams ( Any TWO) :
#8ModerateAge Structure and Population Pyramids
- Set · 2 questionsTrue or False :
#9EasyOccupational Structure
#10EasyLiteracy and Education
- Set · 1 questionDo as directed :
#11ModerateAge Structure and Population Pyramids
- Set · 1 questionGive geographical reasons (Any FOUR) :
#12ModerateLiteracy and Education
- Set · 2 questionsMark and name the following on the outline map of the world with suitable index (Any SIX) :
#13ModerateMigration: Types and Causes
#14ModerateAge Structure and Population Pyramids
- Set · 4 questionsRead the following passage and answer the questions given below : Age Composition There are three basic determinants of age composition of a population. These includes natality (fertility), mortality and mobility. According to Clarke (1972), these three determinants of age structure are inter-dependent and any change in one of these may influence the other two. Through these variables socio-economic conditions influence the age structure. It is fertility rate that determines the proportion of population in different age categories. That is why, the countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia which are characterized by high birth rates display large proportion in young age groups. In most of the countries of these continents, about two fifth of population is below 15 years of age. In India, 36% of its population is below 15 years, according to 2001 census. By contrast, the countries with low fertility rate and longer life expectancy, have about one fourth of their population in the younger age groups. But the proportion of population in the older age groups in these countries is relatively large. Most of the countries of Northwestern Europe and North America, CIS countries, Australia and Japan belong to this category. A continuous downward trend in fertility contributes to the increase in the proportion of population in older age.
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- Set · 1 questionComplete the chain according to the co-relation of factors in column 'A', 'B' and 'C' :
No. 'A' 'B' 'C' (1) Consumer goods (a) Physical geography (h) Commercial area (2) Geography (b) International (i) Climatology (3) Migration (c) Industrial area (j) Pharmaceuticals (4) Formal region (d) Distinct boundaries (k) India to Australia (5) Urban land use (e) Ready for direct consumption (l) State (f) Current fallow (m) Automobiles #19ModerateMigration: Types and Causes
- Set · 1 questionChoose the correct option by identifying the correct co-relation between the assertion and reason : (A : Assertion R : Reason)
#20ModerateAge Structure and Population Pyramids
- Set · 1 questionIdentify and write the incorrect factor :
#21ModerateRural-Urban Composition
- Set · 1 questionIdentify whether the following statements are true or false :
#22EasyImpact of Migration on Population Structure
- Set · 1 questionGive geographical reasons (Any FOUR) :
#23ModerateMigration: Types and Causes
- Set · 1 questionDistinguish between (Any THREE) :
#24ModerateAge Structure and Population Pyramids
- Set · 1 questionMark and name the following on the outline map of the world with suitable index (Any SIX) :
#25ModerateAge Structure and Population Pyramids
- Set · 1 questionComplete the chain and rewrite in your answer paper :
No. 'A' 'B' 'C' (1) Consumer goods (e) Atlantic ocean (m) Pharmaceutical product (2) Panama canal (f) Fertile region (n) Ecological balance (3) Plain (g) Ready for direct consumption (o) Development of Agriculture (4) Food chain (h) Short term (p) Pacific ocean (5) Migration (i) Ecosystem (r) Arabian sea (j) Indian ocean (s) Long term #26ModerateMigration: Types and Causes
- Set · 1 questionChoose the correct option and complete the sentences :
#27ModerateMigration: Types and Causes
- Set · 1 questionGive geographical reasons (Any FOUR) :
#28ModerateLiteracy and Education
- Set · 1 questionDifferentiate between (Any THREE) :
#29ModerateImpact of Migration on Population Structure
- Set · 1 questionMark and name the following on the outline map of the world with suitable index (Any SIX) :
#30ModerateSex Composition
- Set · 5 questionsRead the following map/graphs and answer the questions given below : The bar graph is titled 'ADULT LITERACY RATE 2016'. Each region has a pair of horizontal bars, M for male and F for female, read against a scale of 0 to 100%.
Region Male (%) Female (%) N. Africa and W. Asia 85 74 S. Asia 80 63 Sub-Saharan Africa 72 57 #31ModerateLiteracy and Education
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- Set · 1 questionDraw neat, labelled diagrams (Any TWO) :
#36ModerateAge Structure and Population Pyramids
- Set · 1 questionComplete the chain according to the co-relation of factors in column 'A', 'B' and 'C' :
S.No. 'A' 'B' 'C' (1) Migration (a) Meat Processing (h) Cottage Industry (2) Urban problem (b) Communication (i) Milk processing (3) Pastoral based industries (c) Pulp processing (j) Transportation (4) Tertiary economic activity (d) Increase in slums (k) Climatology (5) Physical Geography (e) Geomorphology (l) Forced (f) Voluntary (m) Crime #37ModerateMigration: Types and Causes
- Set · 1 questionChoose the correct option by identifying the correct co-relation between Assertion and Reason. A : Assertion R : Reason
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- Set · 1 questionDo as directed :
#39ModerateAge Structure and Population Pyramids
- Set · 1 questionState whether the following statements are True or False :
#40EasyLiteracy and Education
- Set · 1 questionGive geographical reasons (Any FOUR) :
#41ModerateOccupational Structure
- Set · 1 questionMark and name the following on the outline map of the world with suitable index (Any SIX) :
#42ModerateLiteracy and Education
- Set · 1 questionGive geographical reasons (Any FOUR) :
#43ModerateLiteracy and Education
- Set · 1 questionDifferentiate between (Any THREE) :
#44ModerateImpact of Migration on Population Structure
- Set · 1 questionMark and name the following on the outline map of the world with suitable index (Any SIX) :
#45ModerateSex Composition
- Set · 1 questionWrite notes on the following (Any THREE) :
#46HardMigration: Types and Causes