This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Geography > Population > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A large city is located near a mountain pass. Using evidence, explain how this geographic factor could influence population patterns. A) The mountain pass makes travel and trade easier, attracting more people. B) The mountain pass blocks all movement. C) The mountain pass causes frequent floods. D) The mountain pass is always cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The mountain pass makes travel and trade easier, attracting more people. 2. True or False:In Sampling a population, a Scientist only counts some of the organisms and makes an estimate of the amount of organisms. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. What growth model has an S-shaped curve? A) Logistic. B) Exponential. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logistic. 4. Competition for space on a reef between two star corals would be considered A) Interspecific Competition. B) Predation. C) Intraspecific Competition. D) Competitive Exclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intraspecific Competition. 5. Which factors is not responsible for deforestation? A) Large population. B) Industry. C) Education. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Education. 6. What causes a population size to increase? A) More births than deaths. B) Fewer births than deaths. C) The number of births and the number of deaths is equal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More births than deaths. 7. Percentage of members of a group who are likely to survive to a given age. A) Survivorship. B) Life expectancy. C) Age structure. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Survivorship. 8. If an area has all the wolves that it can support, the wolf population has reached its ..... A) Population density. B) Immigration. C) Death rate. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carrying capacity. 9. I drew 10 names from a hat containing the names of every student that I teach, what type of sample have I taken? A) A random sample. B) A biased sample. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A random sample. 10. The average number of children a woman of childbearing years would have in her lifetime, if she had children at the current rate for her country A) Fertility rate. B) Birthrate. C) Rate of natural increase. D) Infant birth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fertility rate. 11. The Demographic Transition Model demonstrates ..... A) Where people live in a country. B) How a population changes as it develops. C) How the population is divided into male and female. D) What percentage of the population is in each age cohort. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How a population changes as it develops. 12. One breezy spring, many rabbits are born in a forest. During the warm summer, several wolves move to the forest and many plant-eating birds fly away.Which is a limiting factor that would most likely decrease the rabbit population? A) Breezy spring weather. B) Warm summer weather. C) Birds leaving the area. D) Wolves moving to the area. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wolves moving to the area. 13. How does the availability of energy storage molecules affect the reproduction rate within a population? A) The availability of energy storage molecules does not affect a population. B) Energy storage molecules only affect the lifespan of organisms. C) The more energy storage molecules available to a population, the more the organisms in that population can reproduce. D) The less energy storage molecules, the more organisms can reproduce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The more energy storage molecules available to a population, the more the organisms in that population can reproduce. 14. What is the Dependency Ratio? A) The ratio of the population over 65 to the population under 18. B) The ratio of the population under 18 to the population over 65. C) The ratio of the non-working-age population to the working-age population. D) The ratio of the working-age population to the non-working-age population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The ratio of the working-age population to the non-working-age population. 15. The insects, grass, cows, and horses on a farm are an example of a ..... A) Population. B) Community. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Community. 16. During one year, eight moose in a population died and two moose were born. Three moose immigrated from another population and five emigrated to find mates.What was the population growth during this year?Use this formula:population growth = (birth rate + immigration)-(death rate + emigration) A) -8. B) -3. C) 2. D) 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -8. 17. During exponential growth, as a population gets larger, it grows at a(n) ..... A) Faster rate. B) Slower rate. C) Unchanged rate. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Faster rate. 18. Pattern of spacing of a population within an area A) Carrying capacity. B) Population dispersion. C) Population density. D) Density-dependent factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population dispersion. 19. A group of organisms that have similar traits and are able to produce fertile offspring. A) Species. B) Ecosystem. C) Population. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Species. 20. What do birds such as hawks and eagles need energy for? A) Flying. B) Digesting food. C) Reproducing. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 21. When animals move INTO an area, this is called A) Moving. B) Dying off. C) Emigration. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immigration. 22. What would happen to the human population if a cure for all cancers were discovered? A) Death rate would decrease. B) Death rate would increase. C) Birth rate would increase. D) Birth rate would decrease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Death rate would decrease. 23. Wednesday did not originate from Odin A) You are correct. B) I'm not sure. C) You are incorrect. D) The question is not clear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) You are incorrect. 24. It took from the beginning of mankind to around 1800 for the human population to reach ..... A) 2 million. B) 2 billion. C) 1 billion. D) 1 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1 billion. 25. To catch turtles in a bay, mark them, and let them go. Later, a sample is captured and marked and unmarked turtles are counted. Using math, an estimate of the total population is made. A) Direct Observation. B) Indirect Observation. C) Sampling. D) Mark-and-recapture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mark-and-recapture. 26. Which of the following will increase the size of a population? A) Emigration and births. B) Immigration and deaths. C) Immigration and births. D) Emigration and deaths. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Immigration and births. 27. What causes a population size to decrease? A) More births than deaths. B) Fewer births than deaths. C) The number of births and the number of deaths is equal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fewer births than deaths. 28. What happens during logistic growth? A) The population growth rate slows or stops after a period of exponential growth. B) The population remains constant. C) The population grows exponentially without stopping. D) The population decreases rapidly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The population growth rate slows or stops after a period of exponential growth. 29. The number of years it takes for a population to double in size A) Double migration. B) Death rate time. C) Birth rate time. D) Doubling time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Doubling time. 30. On ten acres of native forest there are eight white-tailed deer, seven coyotes, 45 armadillos, and 231 loblolly pine trees. Which population has the highest density? A) Coyotes. B) White-tailed deer. C) Armadillos. D) Loblolly pine trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loblolly pine trees. 31. Biotic can be defined as A) The living parts of an environment. B) Non-living parts of an environment. C) Rocks and water. D) Snakes and water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The living parts of an environment. 32. The variation of population density over a specified area. A) Migration. B) Population Density. C) Overpopulation. D) Population Distribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population Distribution. 33. An example of a DEVELOPING country: A) Canada. B) America. C) Mexico. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mexico. 34. A fruit fly that has a short life span and produces many offspring can be classified into which reproductive strategy? A) K-strategist. B) A carrying-capacity strategist. C) A logistic strategist. D) R-strategist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) R-strategist. 35. Due to climate and geography, most people in SE Asia live A) Close to rivers and coastlines. B) Near the Himalayan Mountains. C) Throughout China's deserts. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Close to rivers and coastlines. 36. All the alligators in a swamp are an example of a(n) ..... A) Group. B) Population. C) Organism. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 37. The size of a population compared to the amount of space available is called the ..... A) Carrying capacity. B) Limiting factor. C) Biotic potential. D) Population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population density. 38. What are the nonliving parts of the ecosystem? This includes temperature, water, sunlight, air, and soil. A) Microorganisms. B) Abiotic factors. C) Biotic factors. D) Communities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abiotic factors. 39. If a population is INCREASING this means ..... A) There are more births than deaths. B) There are less births than deaths. C) There are the same amount of births and deaths. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There are more births than deaths. 40. The population growth rate of-0.425 means that a population is A) Increasing. B) Neither increasing or decreasing. C) Decreasing. D) Sucky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decreasing. 41. How does a larger consumer population impact its resource population? A) It will need more energy storage molecules, causing more deaths in the resource population. B) It will need fewer energy storage molecules, leading to fewer deaths in the resource population. C) It leads to a larger resource population. D) It doesn't affect the resource population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It will need more energy storage molecules, causing more deaths in the resource population. 42. Which of the following is NOT shown in a population pyramid? A) Females in the population. B) Males in the population. C) Birth and death rates. D) Age distribution of the population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birth and death rates. 43. About how many people on are the planet today? A) 7.8 Billion. B) 6.2 Billion. C) 9 Billion. D) 1 Billion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7.8 Billion. 44. North Fremont's population growth rate is 5%. What is the doubling time for North Fremont? A) 35 years. B) 1.4 years. C) 140 years. D) 14 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14 years. 45. Living things within an ecosystem are called ..... factors. A) Abiotic. B) Organisms. C) Biotic. D) Non-living. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biotic. 46. Which population is decreasing? A) Births greater than deaths. B) Deaths greater than births. C) The one Snoop Dogg's in. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deaths greater than births. 47. This keeps a population's size below its full potential ..... A) Limiting factor. B) Carrying capacity. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting factor. 48. What is the best definition of an organism? A) Many individuals of the same species living in the same area. B) All of the living and nonliving things in a particular area. C) An individual plant, animal, fungus, or single-celled life form. D) A creature that is large enough to see without using a microscope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An individual plant, animal, fungus, or single-celled life form. 49. Type of growth that occurs when there are unlimited resources? A) Predator-prey cycle. B) Logistic. C) Exponential. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exponential. 50. A disease kills most members of a predator population. What is the MOST LIKELY effect on the prey population? A) It will decrease in size. B) It will greatly increase in size. C) It will not be affected by the change in the predator population. D) It will also be killed by the disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It will greatly increase in size. 51. The entire group studied. A) Sample. B) Population. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 52. In Southwest Asia, areas near water sources like rivers and seas are densely populated. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 53. Why do many people live in coastal regions? A) The land is always flat. B) There is access to trade and fishing. C) There are no storms. D) The soil is always dry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There is access to trade and fishing. 54. What does the term carrying capacity describe? A) The population size that the environment can sustain. B) The ability of a population to accept new immigrants. C) The ratio of birth rates to death rates in a population. D) The maximum number of birth rates for a population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The population size that the environment can sustain. 55. The way a species makes its living is ..... A) Natural selection. B) Adaptation. C) Niche. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Niche. 56. An example of a DEVELOPED country: A) Brazil. B) America. C) Egypt. D) Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) America. 57. During one year, two rabbits were born into a population and five emigrated to look for better food sources. Seven rabbits died in the population and 12 immigrated into the population.What was the population growth during this year?Use this formula:population growth = (birth rate + immigration)-(death rate + emigration) A) -10. B) 2. C) 7. D) 26. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 58. Communication, disease, and culture are examples of: A) Physical factor of population density. B) Human factor of population density. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human factor of population density. 59. Which best describes the Sahara Desert? A) Perfectly flat and sandy. B) The largest desert in the world. C) Impossible for people to go across. D) Located only in the northwest corner of Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The largest desert in the world. 60. Biotic factors are A) Living. B) Nonliving. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Living. 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