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Questions
Represent diagrammatically three kinds of age-pyramids for human populations.
Name three representative kinds of age-pyramids for human population and list the characteristics for each one of them
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Solution
A population can be composed of individuals of different age groups. Age distribution plot for a given population is given by the age pyramid.

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