This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Geographers who study population would be interested in all of the following except? A) How many people live in an area. B) How many species of birds inhabit an area. C) Why people live where they do. D) How and why the population of an area changes over time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How many species of birds inhabit an area. 2. Which factor is a likely pull factor for migration? A) Unemployment. B) Natural disaster. C) Better job opportunities. D) War. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Better job opportunities. 3. What are "Restrictive Population Policies" ? A) Policies that increase birth rates. B) Policies that limit population growth. C) Policies that encourage immigration. D) Policies that promote population growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Policies that limit population growth. 4. Increasing connectivity in transportation and communication ..... A) INCREASES urban populations. B) DECREASES urban populations. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) INCREASES urban populations. 5. The total total fertility rate needed for a population to replace itself. A) Rapid increase. B) Dependency rate. C) Birth rate. D) Replacement rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Replacement rate. 6. What is the purpose of China's One Child Policy? A) To increase the population. B) To promote gender equality. C) To limit the number of children people in China could have. D) To encourage immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To limit the number of children people in China could have. 7. Which term describes the movement of people within the same country? A) Emigration. B) International Migration. C) Internal Migration. D) Transhumance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal Migration. 8. Which of the following is a reason for forced migration? A) Environmental disasters. B) Job opportunities. C) Education. D) Cultural exchange. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Environmental disasters. 9. A map that displays population using distorted country sizes is a: A) Isoline map. B) Cartogram. C) Dot map. D) Choropleth map. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cartogram. 10. What is a rural settlement primarily engaged in? A) Tourism. B) Technology. C) Agriculture. D) Manufacturing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agriculture. 11. Which dzongkhag is an example of a nucleated settlement? A) Gasa. B) Haa. C) Ura. D) Thimphu. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ura. 12. What is happening to the global population? A) It is growing. B) It is declining. C) It is staying the same. D) It is going up and down in different years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is growing. 13. What is the demographic transition model used to explain? A) How migration affects climate change. B) The process of urbanization in rural areas. C) How birthrates and death rates change over time. D) Why people move from one continent to another. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How birthrates and death rates change over time. 14. Maquiladoras are A) US workers that move to other countries for jobs. B) Mexican factories on the US border that are owned and operated by US companies. C) Mexican workers who enter the US legally on a work visa. D) Mexican and American workers who migrate to Canada for higher paying jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mexican factories on the US border that are owned and operated by US companies. 15. What is "Arithmetic Population Density" ? A) The number of people per unit of arable land. B) The average age of a population. C) The number of births per year. D) The total population divided by total land area. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The total population divided by total land area. 16. Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, and Indo-European are examples of A) Ethnic groups. B) Climate regions. C) Geographic associations. D) Language families. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Language families. 17. The Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the World, is created as a result of A) One tectonic plate sinking beneath the other (subduction). B) Two tectonic plates sliding against each other. C) Two tectonic plates moving apart. D) Two tectonic plates colliding against each other (folding). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two tectonic plates colliding against each other (folding). 18. Which stage of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) is characterized by both low birth rates and low death rates, resulting in a stable or slowly growing population? A) Stage 3. B) Stage 4. C) Stage 1. D) Stage 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stage 4. 19. At the most basic level, humans need which of the following to establish a successful inhabitable settlement. A) Arable land. B) Cooler climates. C) Mineral resources. D) Transportation technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arable land. 20. Long ago, the original purposes (functions) for building many cities and towns centered on trade, security and defense, or being what kind of location? A) Education providers. B) Religious locations. C) Transportation centers. D) Government administration centers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Religious locations. 21. What is energy defined as in its most simple form? A) The ability to generate heat. B) The ability to do work. C) The ability to produce light. D) The ability to create food energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The ability to do work. 22. Urban area populations are more ..... populated than rural area A) Sparsely. B) Densely. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Densely. 23. Which area is best described as rural? A) Dense coastal port neighborhoods. B) Low-density farmland communities. C) High-rise downtown districts. D) Crowded transit hub corridors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Low-density farmland communities. 24. Little medical care, no birth control, children seen as an asset, plagues and famines are characteristics of stage A) 1. B) 3. C) 2. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 25. Stage 1:The key birth rate and death rate characteristics of a country in Stage 1 of the DTM, and the resulting population growth rate, are: A) Low birth rate, low death rate, high population growth rate. B) Low birth rate, high death rate, high population growth rate. C) High birth rate, low death rate, high population growth rate. D) High birth rate, high death rate, low population growth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) High birth rate, high death rate, low population growth rate. 26. An example of a developing nation is A) Haiti. B) Germany. C) France. D) UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiti. 27. Which disease is more common in HICs? A) Heart disease. B) Cholera. C) Malnutrition. D) Malaria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heart disease. 28. Arjun and Grace discussed how cash incentives for having babies, rising retirement ages, and family-friendly workplace policies are all responses to declining ..... A) Birth rates. B) Living standards. C) Immigration. D) Migration streams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Birth rates. 29. When the central government is run by a small group of people. A) Theocracy. B) Oligarchy. C) Communism. D) Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oligarchy. 30. What is an example of forced migration? A) African slaves brought to the Americas. B) Spanish moving to Mexico. C) African Americans moving north at the end of the civil war. D) Syrians moving to Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) African slaves brought to the Americas. 31. How do people living in areas around Africa's rainforest usually make a living? A) Mining. B) Logging and Agriculture. C) Raising Camels. D) Living as nomadic herders. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logging and Agriculture. 32. Which country's elongated shape presents challenges in transportation and communication? A) Chile. B) Switzerland. C) Lesotho. D) Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chile. 33. Diagram that shows the age and male/female distribution of a population, where the youngest are at the base and the oldest at the top A) Population density distribution. B) Dependent population. C) Food pyramid. D) Population pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population pyramid. 34. What was one effect of China's one-child policy on the population of the country? A) It greatly increased the average age of the population. B) Higher birth rates. C) Increased urbanization. D) Balanced gender ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It greatly increased the average age of the population. 35. What is a demographic transition? A) A four-stage model showing birth, death, and natural increase rates used to help define a country's level of development. B) A process of industrialization. C) A type of agricultural revolution. D) A method of farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A four-stage model showing birth, death, and natural increase rates used to help define a country's level of development. 36. How can a country's relative location impact its economic opportunities? A) Being near trade routes or borders can boost trade. B) Location has no effect on economics. C) Remote countries always have economic advantages. D) Only islands benefit from location. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Being near trade routes or borders can boost trade. 37. What is the process used by plants to combine sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make carbohydrates? A) Chemosynthesis. B) Photosynthesis. C) Respiration. D) Fermentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photosynthesis. 38. Forces that drive people to leave a country A) Gross Domestic Products. B) Pull Factors. C) Death Rates. D) Push Factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Push Factors. 39. What are two regions where there are more people migrating away than migrating in? A) Africa & Asia. B) Asia & Oceania. C) Oceania and Latin America. D) Europe and North America. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Africa & Asia. 40. Assess demographic patterns of population using graphs, maps, and other models. A) Use tools like the Demographic Transition Model, population density maps, and global migration patterns to assess demographic patterns. B) Analyze economic data to understand population growth. C) Evaluate historical events to predict future demographic changes. D) Study cultural influences on population distribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use tools like the Demographic Transition Model, population density maps, and global migration patterns to assess demographic patterns. 41. The population pyramid of a city in Italy or Japan may appear ..... because the city's population is dominated by elderly people. A) "upside down". B) To have a wide base. C) "right-side up". D) To have perfectly vertical sides. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "upside down". 42. This island nation is dependent on ocean currents and has plenty of rain during the year A) Germany. B) United Kingdom. C) Russia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) United Kingdom. 43. A person who has to leave his or her country to find safety. A) Worker. B) Refugee. C) Evacuee. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refugee. 44. Which is a pilgrimage site for Muslims? A) Xi'an. B) Jerusalem. C) Mecca. D) Varanasi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mecca. 45. Life expetency is the average age people are expected to live to. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 46. Hawaii is an archipelago, or group of ..... in the Pacific Ocean. A) Islands. B) Mountains. C) Atlantic. D) Deserts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Islands. 47. When was the One-Child Policy changed to a Three-Child Policy? A) 1998. B) 1989. C) 2002. D) 2016. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2016. 48. Discuss the future trends in population distribution. A) Unchanging migration patterns. B) Urbanization, aging populations, changing migration patterns, and technology influences. C) Stagnant urban growth. D) Decreasing life expectancy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urbanization, aging populations, changing migration patterns, and technology influences. 49. The shape of a population pyramid is determined mainly by the ..... birth rate (CBR). A) Average. B) Natural. C) Total. D) Crude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crude. 50. How many babies are born per year is the A) Birth Rate. B) Migration rate. C) Replacement Rate. D) Mortality Rate. E) Population Growth Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Birth Rate. 51. What are some geographical factors that can affect population? A) Language spoken in the region. B) Average income of the population. C) Distance from the equator. D) Some geographical factors that can affect population include climate, natural resources, terrain, and access to water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Some geographical factors that can affect population include climate, natural resources, terrain, and access to water. 52. The transition from rural areas to cities. A) Social Organization. B) Assimilation. C) Industrialization. D) Urbanization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Urbanization. 53. What is the difference between an emigrant and an immigrant? A) An emigrant is someone who stays in their home country. B) An emigrant is someone entering a new country. C) An immigrant is someone who moves to another country. D) An immigrant is someone leaving their home country. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An immigrant is someone who moves to another country. 54. The largest strait in the world (a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water) is the: A) Bosporous Strait. B) Bass Strait. C) Messina Strait. D) Malacca Strait. E) Bering Strait. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Malacca Strait. 55. In India literacy rate denotes to population with a minimum age of A) 6. B) 8. C) 5. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7. 56. Which of the following BEST fits an example of Chain Migration? A) John moves from London to New York and moves in with his best friend. B) Steve moves from California to Nevada and moves in with his girlfriend. C) Laura moves from China to Chicago and lives with her sister. D) Julie moves from China to New York and lives with four of her old high school friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laura moves from China to Chicago and lives with her sister. 57. Where would the population density be highest? A) Region where the climate is cold all year. B) Area with desert vegetation. C) Region with high mountain peaks. D) Region with moderate temperatures and average rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Region with moderate temperatures and average rain. 58. Bagaimana tingkat kelahiran dan tingkat kematian mempengaruhi tren populasi? A) Tren populasi ditentukan semata-mata oleh faktor ekonomi. B) Tingkat kematian tidak berpengaruh pada ukuran populasi. C) Tingkat kelahiran yang lebih tinggi selalu mengarah pada penurunan populasi. D) Tingkat kelahiran dan tingkat kematian secara langsung mempengaruhi pertumbuhan atau penurunan populasi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tingkat kelahiran dan tingkat kematian secara langsung mempengaruhi pertumbuhan atau penurunan populasi. 59. The world's largest concentration of people (in terms of total numbers) is located in A) East Asia. B) Western EuropeWestern Europe. C) Southeast Asia. D) South Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) East Asia. 60. Into which economic sector would you put the fire brigade? A) Secondary. B) Quaternary. C) Tertiary. D) Primary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tertiary. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesArts Humanities QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population Quiz 1Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population Quiz 3Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population Quiz 4Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population Quiz 5Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population Quiz 6Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population Quiz 7Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population Quiz 8Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books