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Worksheet: India quiz answers
1. True. India has a population of over 900 million. It
has a population density of 268 per km squared compared with 235
per km squared in the UK.
2. True. The wettest place on earth is Cherrapunji which
has 1,270 cm of rain each year compared to 59 cm of rain in London.
3. True. India makes about 800 films a year (more than three
times the number produced in the USA) and has about 5,000 cinemas.
On average every Indian goes to the cinema 6.6 times per year. Over
14 million Indians go to the cinema every day.
4. False. In the 1991 census, India's population was divided
as follows: 83% Hindu, 11% Muslim, 2% Christian, 2% Sikh, 1% Buddhist,
0.4% Jain.
5. True. The urban population has expanded steadily since
1960. In 1991, 29 per cent of Indians lived in urban areas, but
60 per cent of Indians still lived in villages with fewer than 5,000
people in them. The largest cities in India are Bombay (12.6 million),
Calcutta (11 million), Delhi (8.4 million) and Madras (5.4 million).
However, most people in India (about 70 per cent) depend on agriculture
(including forestry and fishing) for a living. These farmers depend
on the weather for their livelihood, since only one-third of cultivated
land is irrigated.
6. False. India became independent from Britain in August
1947.
7. False. India has 18 official languages, but the people
of India have over 1,500 different mother tongues. Hindi and Bengali
are the fifth and sixth most spoken languages in the world. English
is widely spoken but is not an official language.
8. True. The textiles industry is India's main traditional
industry and largest employer, providing jobs for perhaps 20 million
people and accounting for 38 per cent of exports.
9. False. India's total land area is 3,287,263 km. It is
over 13 times the size of the UK.
10. True. There are 500,000 letter boxes in India and 150,000
post offices.
11. False. Most of the country used to be covered in forest
but today this has been reduced to only 21 per cent. About half
of this area is reserved for the production of timber and other
forestry products.
12. True. About two million tourists visit India every year.
The Government hopes this will reach five million by the year 2000.
Tourism is the country's sixth largest source of income.
13. True. The Green Revolution of 1965 led to an increase
in food production and India could feed itself by 1971. India gives
various types of development aid to neighbouring countries and this
has included food aid.
14. False. It is estimated that between 330 and 350 million
people in India are poor. Although this is a very large figure,
it is a reduction from the number of people living in poverty in
1970--71 (57 per cent of the population).
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