This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 8 Population Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a cartogram in population distribution studies? A) A weather map showing precipitation. B) A map that distorts area size to represent a variable, such as population. C) A satellite image showing vegetation cover. D) A traditional map with equal-area projection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A map that distorts area size to represent a variable, such as population. 2. Sparsely populated areas such as the country side A) Urban areas. B) Rural areas. C) Suburbs. D) Urbanization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rural areas. 3. Example of a Pull Factor A) War. B) Disease. C) Famine. D) Economic opportunities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Economic opportunities. 4. What are the challenges faced in sparsely populated areas? A) High population density. B) Limited access to services, infrastructure, and economic opportunities. C) Easy access to economic opportunities. D) Abundance of services and infrastructure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limited access to services, infrastructure, and economic opportunities. 5. What are the four types of economic activities? A) Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary. B) Primary, locus, tert, secondary. C) Quaternary, primal, opid, tertiary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary. 6. The number of births compared to the total number of people in a population A) Birth rate. B) Doubling time. C) Death rate. D) Baby boom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Birth rate. 7. Natural Increase Rate (NIR):Which regions are seeing the most growth annually? A) North America. B) East Asia. C) Western Europe. D) Sub-Saharan Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sub-Saharan Africa. 8. What was the original purpose of founding Svalbard? A) A coal mining town. B) A military base. C) A tourist destination. D) A scientific research facility. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A coal mining town. 9. What is "Standard of Living" ? A) The average number of children per family. B) The level of wealth, comfort, and access to goods and services. C) The number of people per household. D) The average age of a population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The level of wealth, comfort, and access to goods and services. 10. What does "Crude Death Rate (CDR)" measure? A) The number of deaths per 1, 000 people per year. B) The number of deaths caused by chronic diseases. C) The number of deaths in rural areas. D) The number of deaths in hospitals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The number of deaths per 1, 000 people per year. 11. Which of the following best explains a cultural push factor? A) Job openings. B) High taxes. C) Religious persecution. D) Better schools. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Religious persecution. 12. What information does population density provide? A) The number of animals in an area. B) The number of plants in an area. C) Where most of the people in the world live. D) The amount of rainfall in an area. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Where most of the people in the world live. 13. Example of a Push Factor A) War. B) Freedom. C) Job growth. D) Economic Opportunities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) War. 14. What is the average number of children a woman would have in her lifetime called? A) Life expectancy. B) Mortality rate. C) Fertility rate. D) Birth interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fertility rate. 15. What is rural population? A) Number of people living in urban areas. B) Number of people living in cities. C) Number of people living in rural areas. D) Number of people living in suburban areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Number of people living in rural areas. 16. What factor does NOT affect the size of the sphere of influence? A) Transport links. B) Settlement infrastructure. C) Distance from cities. D) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climate. 17. In what year did the world population reach 1 billion? A) 1804. B) 1900. C) 2000. D) 1700. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1804. 18. Which countries tend to have higher birthrates? A) Democracies. B) Developed. C) Developing. D) Migratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Developing. 19. In which phase of urbanisation do the leaders of the city decide to renovate or destroy old buildings to attract young, wealthy and educated people? A) Counter urbanisation. B) Urbanisation. C) Reurbanisation. D) Suburbanisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reurbanisation. 20. Which demographic indicator is most useful for predicting future population growth in a country? A) Crude Death Rate (CDR). B) Life Expectancy. C) Infant Mortality Rate (IMR). D) Total Fertility Rate (TFR). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Total Fertility Rate (TFR). 21. In which type of settlement are houses built very close to each other? A) Nucleated. B) Linear. C) Sparsely populated. D) Dispersed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nucleated. 22. Lower birth rate A) More developed. B) Less developed. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More developed. 23. The total number of live births per year 1, 000 people in a society is the A) Crude birth rate. B) Total fertility rate. C) Life data rate. D) New birth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crude birth rate. 24. Rome would best be described as ..... A) A hilltop site. B) An island site. C) A confluence site. D) A fall line site. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A hilltop site. 25. Explain Thomas Malthus's population theory. A) He concluded that the world's population increase was higher than the development of food supplies. B) He concluded that crude birth rates must balance crude death rates. C) He concluded that population increased arithmetically while food production increased linguistically. D) He concluded that population growth was outpacing available resources in every country, according to algebraic calculations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He concluded that the world's population increase was higher than the development of food supplies. 26. This HUGE country has is rich in timber (trees), natural gas and minerals BUT they are hard to harvest because of such a harsh climate A) United Kingdom. B) Russia. C) Germany. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Russia. 27. What does the map represent? A) Population density of Asia. B) Population density of Europe. C) Population density of South America. D) Population density of Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population density of South America. 28. Low population growth rate due to high birth rates and high death rate characterizes Stage ..... A) 5 of the Demographic Transition Model. B) 3 of the Demographic Transition Model. C) 4 of the Demographic Transition Model. D) 1 of the Demographic Transition Model. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1 of the Demographic Transition Model. 29. Power is held by the people and their elected officials. A) Democracy. B) Theocracy. C) Dictatorship. D) Monarchy. E) Oligarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Democracy. 30. Which describes zero population growth? A) Birthrate is lower than death rate by 50 percent. B) Birthrate is higher than death rate by 60 percent. C) Death rate is higher than birthrate by 30 percent. D) Birthrate is higher than death rate by zero percent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Birthrate is higher than death rate by zero percent. 31. Why is understanding population indicators important for geographers? A) It has no significant impact on geography. B) It is only relevant for urban planning. C) It provides data for evaluating space and place around the world. D) It helps in predicting weather patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It provides data for evaluating space and place around the world. 32. What happens to temperature as elevation increases? A) Temperature increases. B) Temperature decreases. C) Temperature remains the same. D) Temperature fluctuates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temperature decreases. 33. If you were President of the United States, which below would be better for our country's economic health? A) More Exports than Imports. B) More Imports than Exports. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More Exports than Imports. 34. What is "Stationary Population Level" ? A) When population size remains stable over time. B) When birth rates exceed death rates. C) When population growth is accelerating. D) When migration stops. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When population size remains stable over time. 35. This is a Natural Increase in the population equation A) Births-deaths. B) Deaths-births. C) Emigration-immigration. D) Immigration-emigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Births-deaths. 36. This region has two seasons-a wet season and a dry season A) Tropical Rainforest. B) Sahara. C) Savanna. D) Sahel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Savanna. 37. What is a solution for land use challenges in Japan? A) Limiting construction. B) Building more parks. C) Skyscrapers with earthquake-resistant construction. D) Reducing urban development. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skyscrapers with earthquake-resistant construction. 38. In A Tale of Two Indias, How did the author support the claim, "One of India's great strengths ..... is the youth of its people." A) 600 million people are under 25 years old. B) 12% of college grads will be Indian. C) Big tech companies can provide a lot of jobs but with smaller salaries. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 39. Fill in the blank:Crude birth rate (CBR) is extremely ..... or nearly nonexistent in Stage 5 of demographic transition. A) Rapid. B) High. C) Low. D) Average. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Low. 40. Once you cross the English channel, this country has great land for farming, receives plenty of rain, and many people live in London. A) United Kingdom. B) Russia. C) Germany. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) United Kingdom. 41. What is the rate of natural increase? A) The number of births per 1, 000 per year. B) The number of deaths per 1, 000 per year. C) The difference between birth rate and death rate. D) The difference between death rate and birth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The difference between birth rate and death rate. 42. The world's population is around A) 3.5 million. B) 10 billion. C) 7 million. D) 7 billion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7 billion. 43. In which stage of the demographic transition can we find Hungary? A) 3. B) 5. C) 4. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 44. The actual location of a city is called ..... A) New York. B) Site. C) Pittsburg. D) Situation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Site. 45. Life Expectancy is ..... A) The average number of people expected to live in a country per year. B) The average number kids a person has in a lifetime. C) The average number of burgers a person eats in a month. D) The average number of years a person lives in a given country. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The average number of years a person lives in a given country. 46. Who are the dreamers? A) Under age children who dream of a better life where they live. B) Under age children brought to the US with their parents. C) Under age children brought to the US from Mexico. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Under age children brought to the US with their parents. 47. What is the infant mortality rate (IMR)? A) The number of people living per unit of land. B) The number of babies who die before age 1 per 1, 000 live births. C) The average number of children a woman is expected to have. D) The number of deaths per 1, 000 people in a population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The number of babies who die before age 1 per 1, 000 live births. 48. Which is an example of an underpopulated country? A) UK. B) Bangladesh. C) Canada. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canada. 49. Tokyo is in which country? A) China. B) India. C) Sri Lanka. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Japan. 50. How does population growth impact the environment? A) It has no impact on the environment. B) It leads to deforestation, increased resource usage, and increased pollution. C) It decreases pollution levels. D) It increases biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It leads to deforestation, increased resource usage, and increased pollution. 51. This caused a jump in the worlds' population. A) The Medical Revolution. B) The Scientific Revolution. C) The Industrial Revolution. D) The Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Industrial Revolution. 52. Population pyramid A) Shows a country's population organized by age and gender. B) Egyptian pyramids. C) A declining population. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shows a country's population organized by age and gender. 53. The number of births per 1, 000 people per year is called ..... A) Crude Live Rate. B) Total Fertility Rate. C) Crude Death Rate. D) Crude Birth Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crude Birth Rate. 54. What is an example of a country that has a rapidly declining population but still does not allow much immigration because they are afraid that it will alter their culture? A) The US. B) Japan. C) Australia. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Japan. 55. The number of people that are too young or too old to work on a population pyramid. A) Population Ratio. B) Dependency Ratio. C) Sex Ratio. D) Demographic Ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dependency Ratio. 56. What is epidemiology? A) The study of plants and animals. B) The study of disease, how it spreads, and how it can be prevented. C) The study of weather patterns. D) The study of ancient civilizations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The study of disease, how it spreads, and how it can be prevented. 57. If a country has a wide base on its population pyramid, it most likely has: A) A large elderly population. B) A high birth rate. C) A very low death rate. D) Equal numbers of males and females. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A high birth rate. 58. How does climate affect population distribution? A) Climate change has no effect on population movement. B) Population distribution is solely determined by government policies. C) Climate affects population distribution through factors like agriculture, natural disasters, and living conditions. D) Climate has no impact on population distribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climate affects population distribution through factors like agriculture, natural disasters, and living conditions. 59. Population density alone does not determine (a) A) A country's climate. B) A country's size. C) A country's culture. D) A. A country's wealth or quality of li. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. A country's wealth or quality of li. 60. The concept of brain drain refers to: A) The movement of students from rural to urban schools. B) The increase in the number of skilled professionals in a country. C) The process of training unskilled workers within a country. D) The emigration of skilled professionals from one country to another for better opportunities. 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