This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Geography > Population > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. All of the following are density-independent factors except: A) Less space. B) Deforestation. C) Seasonal changes. D) Hurricanes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Less space. 2. All of the following are limiting factors EXCEPT A) Space. B) Weather conditions. C) Soil. D) Food. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soil. 3. England had 12 births for every 1, 000 people in a year. This is A) Crude Death Rate. B) Natural Increase Rate. C) Crude Birth Rate. D) Doubling Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crude Birth Rate. 4. ..... occurs when individuals work together. A) Carrying capacity. B) Immigration. C) Cooperation. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cooperation. 5. A general movement A) Community. B) Sparing. C) Trend. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trend. 6. Which of the following is an example of modifying the environment to provide water for crops? A) Building dams and canals. B) Planting more trees. C) Using windmills for energy. D) Fishing in lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Building dams and canals. 7. The Irish potato famine is an example of which kind of migration? A) Forced and voluntary. B) Forced. C) Voluntary. D) Step. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forced and voluntary. 8. In a country that has a growing population ..... A) The birth rate is higher than the death rate. B) The death rate is higher than the birth rate. C) The birth rate equals the death rate. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The birth rate is higher than the death rate. 9. Nesting birds often space themselves evenly from other nests. This pattern is called A) Clumped dispersion. B) Uniform dispersion. C) Random dispersion. D) Scatter dispersion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uniform dispersion. 10. Increase or decrease in size depending on how many individuals are added to it or removed from it A) Geographic Distribution. B) Age Structure. C) Growth Rate. D) Population Density. E) Dispersion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Growth Rate. 11. What determines whether the size of a population stays the same, increases, or decreases over time? A) Geographic range. B) Growth rate. C) Population density. D) Age structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Growth rate. 12. An organism gets food, water, shelter, and other things it needs to live, grow, and reproduce from its A) Abiotic factors. B) Habitat. C) Population. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Habitat. 13. Why do we randomly select our samples? A) For control. B) To eliminate confounding results. C) Reduce bias. D) So we don't get the same answers from everyone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reduce bias. 14. Which definition best matches the term population? A) A measurement of people for a specific area. B) All the inhabitants of a particular area. C) Human beings in general. D) The increase in the number of people in a particular area. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All the inhabitants of a particular area. 15. Animals move to ..... crowded places. A) More. B) Less. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less. 16. A population pyramid is grouped by which two factors? A) Race, literacy rate. B) Age, gender. C) Age, race. D) Race, gender. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Age, gender. 17. What organism is the main focus of our Amplify unit story? A) Furbils. B) Weebugs. C) Honeybees. D) Moon Jellies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moon Jellies. 18. What has NOT led to the large population of the world? A) Improvements in sanitation. B) Decreases in sanitation. C) Increases in food production. D) Discoveries in medical science. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decreases in sanitation. 19. If a country has a population of 4 million in 2000, 8 million in 2010, and 16 million in 2020, then what is the doubling time for that country's population? A) 10 years. B) 20 years. C) 5 years. D) 15 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10 years. 20. The term for the role an organism has in the community. A) Tolerances. B) Competition. C) Habitat. D) Niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Niche. 21. Living things such as plants, animals and bacteria are ..... ? A) Ecosystems. B) Populations. C) Resource Populations. D) Organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organisms. 22. Why was China able to build a network of highways in only a few years, when the United States took nearly 40 years? A) Americans are generally unmotivated. B) The size of their population allows them to get more work done faster. C) They have superior technology which allows them to work faster. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The size of their population allows them to get more work done faster. 23. What is a resource population? A) A population that eats organisms from another population. B) A population that gets eaten by organisms in another population. C) A group of people who gets things for others. D) None of these answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A population that gets eaten by organisms in another population. 24. Speed at which a population grows A) Population density. B) Population distribution. C) Population growth rate. D) Population size. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population growth rate. 25. Scientific study of human populations A) Biology. B) Geography. C) Demography. D) Theology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demography. 26. What measures the number of deaths a country has in a year? A) Doubling Time. B) Natural Increase Rate. C) Crude Birth Rate. D) Crude Death Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crude Death Rate. 27. The maximum # of individuals that an environment can support and sustain is known as the populations' ..... A) Migration pattern. B) Carrying capacity. C) Limiting growth. D) Death rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carrying capacity. 28. The seaweed, shells, sand, fish, and sharks in the ocean are part of a ..... A) Population. B) Community. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Community. 29. What was the sex ratio of India in the year 2001? A) 900 women per thousand males. B) 933 women per thousand males. C) 950 women per thousand males. D) 833 women per thousand males. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 933 women per thousand males. 30. A country with a birth rate of 11 and death rate of 13 would benefit from A) Pro-natalist policies. B) Restrictive immigration policies. C) Increased spending on education. D) Decreased spending on health care. E) Anti-natalist policies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pro-natalist policies. 31. Under many Japanese cities they have built shopping centers filled with shops and restaurants. In Osaka, even the National Museum of Art is underground! What type of construction is this? A) Terracing. B) Earthquake resistant. C) Subterranean. D) Skyscraper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subterranean. 32. If the death rate of a population is greater than the birthrate, the population decreases. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 33. During a middle school baseball game, every spectator placed his or her ticket stub into a container. After the game, the coach chose eight people to march in the sportsmanship parade. What is the sample in this situation? A) The coach. B) The ticket stubs. C) The eight people to march in the sportsmanship parade. D) The baseball game spectators. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The eight people to march in the sportsmanship parade. 34. An ecosystem is made up of ..... A) Living things and their offspring. B) Nonliving things such as rocks and soil. C) Living things and nonliving things. D) Many types of animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Living things and nonliving things. 35. When something remains mostly the same over time it is ..... A) Stable. B) Uneventful. C) Boring. D) Potential Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stable. 36. Range that describes the area inhabited by a population A) Population Density. B) Dispersion. C) Geographic Distribution. D) Growth Rate. E) Age Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geographic Distribution. 37. A population of 150 individuals has an allele frequency of 0.3 for the dominant allele (B) and a frequency of 0.7 for the recessive allele (b). Use the Hardy-Weinberg equation to determine the frequency of the genotype (bb). A) 0.42. B) 0.49. C) 0.09. D) 0.21. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0.49. 38. Today, world population is growing because people live longer even though the birthrate is dropping A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 39. Out of a group of 30 volunteers, 11 people are chosen to participate in a survey about the number of phone calls they make each week. What is the sample in this situation? A) The 19 people not selected to participate. B) The 30 volunteers. C) The 11 people selected to participate. D) The people conducting the survey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The 11 people selected to participate. 40. An example of an ecosystem would be? A) The ants in Mrs. M's front garden. B) The students, buses, buildings, gardens, and animals around Pennichuck. C) A rocky ledge along a running brook. D) All the different trees and bushes around Pennichuck Middle School. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The students, buses, buildings, gardens, and animals around Pennichuck. 41. A U.S. senator from Maine wants to find out the opinion of the voters in his state on issues concerning education. The office of the senator passes out surveys on ten street corners in the five major cities in the state of Maine. Is this random? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 42. An example of stability would be ..... ? A) An increase of births and a decrease of deaths. B) An increase of deaths and a decrease of births. C) Both births and deaths are equal. D) Both births and deaths are unequal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both births and deaths are equal. 43. Define population density and distribution. A) The average number of people in a given unit area and how a population is spread over an area. B) The number of houses per square kilometre and urbanisation rates. C) Where people live on the surface of the earth. D) The number of a people in a country and where they are situated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The average number of people in a given unit area and how a population is spread over an area. 44. 7) What is the largest country in the world? A) Canada. B) The United States. C) China. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Russia. 45. When a population is stable it means ..... A) There are more births than deaths. B) There are less births than deaths. C) There are the same number as births than deaths. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There are the same number as births than deaths. 46. The countryside, less population A) Rural. B) Urban. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rural. 47. A student wants to know which type of pizza the students at his high school prefer. Which option would give a unbiased, representative sample: A) Asking all the students in the hot lunch line. B) Asking 10 random students from each homeroom. C) Asking every other student who gets off a school bus. D) Asking all the 10th graders. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asking 10 random students from each homeroom. 48. A high birth rate, high death rate, and low natural increase rate is A) Stage 1. B) Stage 4. C) Stage 5. D) Stage 2. E) Stage 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage 1. 49. ..... means moving into a population. A) Plantation. B) Repopulation. C) Immigration. D) Emmigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Immigration. 50. How many extra people are added to the world's population each year? A) 8, 000, 000. B) 800, 000. C) 800, 000, 000. D) 70, 000, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 70, 000, 000. 51. As per the 2011 Census, which state has the least density (17 personin one sq km) of population? A) Uttar Pradesh. B) Arunachal Pradesh. C) Kerla. D) Sikkim. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arunachal Pradesh. 52. In Rwanda, there are more young children than teenagers, and more teenagers than adults. This age structure indicates a population that A) Will double in 30 years. B) Has stopped growing. C) Has a steady growth rate. D) Will decrease in 30 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will double in 30 years. 53. The study of how living things interact with each other and the environment is called ..... A) Ecology. B) Biodiversity. C) Eco-friendly. D) Economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecology. 54. Something that controls the growth or size of a population is A) The growth rate. B) A limiting factor. C) A growth factor. D) The carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A limiting factor. 55. This occurs when the size of a population becomes larger than the carrying capacity of its ecosystem. A) Biotic potential. B) Overpopulation. C) Extinction. D) Underpopulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overpopulation. 56. If a nation's Birth Rate is higher than its death rate, then ..... A) The country needs to be a democracy. B) The population is experiencing new migration patterns. C) The population is shrinking. D) The population is growing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The population is growing. 57. A lack of resources such as food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space is often called ..... A) Messy. B) Limiting factors. C) Wet. D) Found in rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limiting factors. 58. Country with the fastest growing population. A) France. B) Niger. C) Thailand. D) Australia. E) Brazil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Niger. 59. True or False? In the experiment of fermentation of yeast and sugar, the carbon dioxide gas was produced by the yeast (a fungus) metabolizing (eating) sugar which produced carbon dioxide gas and ethanol as waste products. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 60. Name the Act which was enacted to protect the forests A) The Indian Forest Act, 1875. B) The Indian Forest Act, 1865. C) The Indian Forest Act, 1847. D) The Indian Forest Act, 1850. 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