This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which type of Government would have a leader that was born into the job? A) Democracy. B) Dictatorship. C) Monarchy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monarchy. 2. Which of the following does NOT influence the birth rate? A) Urbanization. B) Low mortality rate. C) Higher cost of raising and educating children. D) Improved sanitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Improved sanitation. 3. Which physical factor can lead to high population density? A) Polar regions. B) Mountainous terrain. C) Fertile plains. D) Desert areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fertile plains. 4. What are many of the largest cities in Southwest Asia located on or near? A) Mountains. B) Rivers. C) People. D) Deserts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rivers. 5. A place that can be used to support agriculture A) Arable land. B) Cultural diffusion. C) Doubling time. D) Population density. E) Population distribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arable land. 6. What is the internal migration pattern as seen in the US? A) South and West. B) North and East. C) North and West. D) South and East. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South and West. 7. What effect does the imbalanced Chinese society have? A) Not all Chinese men will be able to marry a Chinese woman. B) Male domination. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not all Chinese men will be able to marry a Chinese woman. 8. Japan has a birth rate of 8 and a death rate of 10. What is the population growth of Japan? A) -2. B) 2. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -2. 9. Push-pull factors affect migration by: A) Encouraging people to move from one place to another due to reasons like jobs or safety. B) Preventing all forms of movement between countries. C) Making migration illegal in most regions. D) Ensuring everyone stays in their home country. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Encouraging people to move from one place to another due to reasons like jobs or safety. 10. Population Pyramid:A population pyramid is: A) A graphical representation of the age and sex distribution of a population. B) A chart showing the economic growth of a country. C) A map displaying the geographic location of populations. D) A diagram illustrating the migration patterns of people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A graphical representation of the age and sex distribution of a population. 11. What was a significant social impact of the One Child Policy? A) Lower unemployment rates. B) Increased birth rates. C) Higher literacy rates. D) Gender imbalance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gender imbalance. 12. If you think your culture is better than everyone else, you are being? A) Patriotic. B) Ethnocentric. C) Racist. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethnocentric. 13. An anti-natalist population policy A) Is meant to raise the TFR of the population. B) Is meant to lower the TFR of the population. C) Discourages the use of birth control. D) Is meant to lower the infant mortality rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is meant to lower the TFR of the population. 14. A country experiencing declining birth rates, low death rates, and slow population growth is in which stage of the DTM? A) Stage 1. B) Stage 2. C) Stage 3. D) Stage 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage 4. 15. Many old cities, like Athens and Rome, were built on hilltops for ..... A) Trade. B) Protection. C) Access to water. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protection. 16. What does DTM stand for? A) Developing Transition Model. B) Demographic Transition Model. C) Demographic Transnational Modelling. D) Decreasing Thermal Medicines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Demographic Transition Model. 17. What is the definition of Total Fertility Rate (TFR)? A) The average age at which women have their first child. B) The average number of children a woman will have within a country. C) The number of births per 1, 000 people in a year. D) The percentage of women who are married in a country. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The average number of children a woman will have within a country. 18. Push factors are those that force the individual to move voluntarily, and in many cases, they are forced because the individual risk something if they stay. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 19. What is a shared objective of both guest workers and the phenomenon of brain drain? A) They have distinct objectives with no overlap. B) To seek better living conditions in a foreign country. C) To exclusively benefit developing nations. D) They improve personal economic opportunities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They improve personal economic opportunities. 20. What are the effects of low population density in rural areas? A) No impact on rural areas. B) Increased access to services and economic opportunities. C) Enhanced social interactions and infrastructure maintenance. D) Negative impact on access to services, economic opportunities, social interactions, and infrastructure maintenance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative impact on access to services, economic opportunities, social interactions, and infrastructure maintenance. 21. Which term describes the movement of people from rural areas to cities? A) Transhumance. B) Remittance. C) Urbanization. D) Chain Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Urbanization. 22. The degree of wealth, goods, and services available to a certain population is ..... A) Standard of Living. B) Demographic Transition Model. C) Epidemiological Transition. D) Population Density. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Standard of Living. 23. When people exit a region it's called: A) Immigration. B) Being a refugee. C) Emigration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emigration. 24. A decrease in birth rates due to women entering the workforce typically occurs in: A) Stage 2. B) Stage 5. C) Stage 1. D) Stage 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage 3. 25. A person forced to migrate for similar reasons to a refugee but who does not move across an international border. What is this person called? A) Stateless Person. B) Internally Displaced Person. C) Immigrant. D) Asylum Seeker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internally Displaced Person. 26. Model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical exploitation of poor nations by rich nations A) Modernization Model. B) Development Theory. C) World Systems Theory. D) Organic Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) World Systems Theory. 27. Fill in the blank: ..... refers to statistical data relating to the population and groups within it. A) Psychographics. B) Economics. C) Demographics. D) Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demographics. 28. Temperate climates, coastlines, fertile soil, and flat low-elevated land are characteristics of A) Sub-arctic areas. B) Frigid areas. C) Densely populated areas. D) Sparsely populated areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Densely populated areas. 29. What is the natural increase in demography? A) Its the natural way people increase in wealth. B) Its the decrease of a population. C) Its the growth of a population. D) Its the increase in natural bureaucracies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Its the growth of a population. 30. How is the rate of natural increase calculated? A) Subtract birthrate from mortality rate. B) Subtract mortality rate from birthrate. C) Add birthrate and mortality rate. D) Divide birthrate by mortality rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subtract mortality rate from birthrate. 31. What do you call increase and decrease in population that could be positive or negative? A) Population Increase. B) Population growth. C) Population Distribution. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population growth. 32. What is the term used to describe the movement of people from rural to urban areas? A) Migration. B) Urbanization. C) Suburbanization. D) Ruralization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urbanization. 33. What is the most common landform in Southwest Asia? A) Plains. B) Rivers. C) Mountains. D) Deserts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deserts. 34. The number of deaths compared to the total number of people in a population A) Population decline. B) Death rate. C) Doubling time. D) Birth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Death rate. 35. What are the Six Elements of Culture? A) Sports, Fashion, Cuisine, Education. B) Tradition, Geography, Technology, History. C) Language, Religion, Music, Ideas, Food, Clothing. D) Nature, Climate, Transportation, Communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Language, Religion, Music, Ideas, Food, Clothing. 36. The death rate is ..... A) The number of births per 1, 000 each year. B) How old people live to. C) The number of deaths per 1, 000 each year. D) Mrs Rutter's favourite colour. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The number of deaths per 1, 000 each year. 37. The deaths of infants and children under the age five. A) Adult mortality. B) Child mortality. C) Stage 1 of the Demographic Transition Model. D) Mortality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Child mortality. 38. What is a guest worker? A) A person who migrates for better job opportunities. B) A person who is brought to a country to serve a specific need and then returns to their country after finishing. C) A person who moves to another country for education. D) A person who temporarily leaves their home due to an imminent threat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person who is brought to a country to serve a specific need and then returns to their country after finishing. 39. Which example can promote feelings of national pride? A) Roads. B) Urb. C) Monuments. D) Air travel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monuments. 40. An emigrant is ..... A) A person who is leaving their home country to move to another place. B) A person who is entering and living in a new country. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A person who is leaving their home country to move to another place. 41. Push factors are reasons that compel a person to leave their home. A) Factors that compel a person to leave their home. B) Conditions that make a person feel comfortable in their home. C) Incentives for staying in one's current location. D) Reasons that attract a person to a new location. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Factors that compel a person to leave their home. 42. ..... refers to wealth, financial worth, and resources pertaining to a particular region. A) Politics. B) Economics. C) Culture. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Economics. 43. The basic facilities and services that support a community. A) Arable land. B) Demographic transition. C) Infrastructure. D) Urbanization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Infrastructure. 44. Where are people most likely not to live? A) Places that are too hot. B) Places that are too cold. C) Places that are too high in elevation. D) All the answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the answers are correct. 45. Which indicator dictates a high standard of living? A) Population age distribution. B) Large percentage of population living in rural areas. C) Limited life. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population age distribution. 46. Which describes the birth and death rate of Stage 4 of the DTM? A) The death rate is decreasing and birth rate remains high. B) Both the death and birth rate are high. C) Both the death and birth rate are low and fluctuating. D) Both the birth rate and death rate are decreasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both the death and birth rate are low and fluctuating. 47. How did the One Child Policy affect the population structure in China? A) It had no effect on population structure. B) It resulted in a younger population. C) It led to an ageing population. D) It increased the working-age population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It led to an ageing population. 48. Countries with a high TFR sometimes have very young populations. Why are young populations so challenging and expensive for a country to care for? A) They require more healthcare, immunization, and check-ups for children. B) They require more pensions for retiring workers. C) They require more care for the elderly. D) They require more workers because so many are retiring. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They require more healthcare, immunization, and check-ups for children. 49. The movement of people out of a country. A) Emigration. B) Pull factor. C) Immigration. D) Push factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emigration. 50. How many people die per year is the A) Population Growth Rate. B) Migration rate. C) Mortality Rate. D) Birth Rate. E) Replacement Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mortality Rate. 51. The battle for political legitimacy in Somalia is between ..... A) Afrikaners and the African National Congress. B) Jews and Arab Muslims. C) The Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority. D) Militias loyal to the Union of Islamic Courts and clan warlords. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Militias loyal to the Union of Islamic Courts and clan warlords. 52. Which of the following is NOT a benefit of settling near a large body of water? A) Provide a natural boundary to prevent invasion. B) Prevent trade with nearby lands. C) Provide a method of travel to other lands to trade. D) Provide a food supply through fishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prevent trade with nearby lands. 53. Which of the following statements about a high TFR is most likely to be false? A) A high TFR rarely is linked to poverty. B) A high TFR most often occurs in a rural environment where subsistence agriculture is practiced. C) A high TFR corresponds to limited knowledge or understanding of family planning practices or contraception. D) A high TFR tends to occur in areas where women receive little education and have a lower social status. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A high TFR rarely is linked to poverty. 54. Scenario:A family moves from Honduras to the U.S. to find safety and jobs. What are these called? A) Pull factors. B) Push factors. C) Cultural factors. D) Economic factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pull factors. 55. Which type of development does the following statement describe? The level of a country's wealth and standard of living. A) Environmental. B) Social. C) Economic. D) Political. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Economic. 56. What does Life Expectancy measure? A) The number of years the average person will live. B) The proportion of males to females in a population. C) The number of deaths per year. D) The number of live births per year. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The number of years the average person will live. 57. Which historical event explains the large number of refugees to the United States arriving from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro from 1999 to 2001? A) Unstable governments struggling with coastal piracy, militia groups, feuding warlords, and crumbling economies. B) Widespread famine caused by drought. C) The break-up of Yugoslavia into smaller independent nations. D) The break-up of the Soviet Union into smaller independent nations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The break-up of Yugoslavia into smaller independent nations. 58. Which statistic is used to understand population growth? A) Push-pull factors. B) Population pyramid. C) Birthrate. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birthrate. 59. What is the measurement of population density? A) Capita/km. B) Capita/square km. C) Square km/ capita. D) Km/capita. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capita/square km. 60. Nearly all the world's population growth is clustered in what areas? A) LDC's. B) MDC's. C) Suburban areas. D) Urban areas. 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