This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Geography > Population > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 13 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A population's emigration in one month totaled 2 individuals. During the same period, immigration was 12 individuals. Natality (births) was 8, and mortality was 15 due to a parasite infection. What was the net effect on the population size? A) +5. B) +3. C) 0. D) -4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) +3. 2. What are push factors of migration? A) Factors that attract people to a place. B) Factors that result in zero population growth. C) Factors that push people out of their home countries. D) Factors that result in negative population growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Factors that push people out of their home countries. 3. Better education A) Push factor. B) Pull factor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pull factor. 4. During a long period when there is no rainfall, a mountain lion may temporarily leave its usual hunting territory to drink from a farm pond. This behavior is due to A) The change in a biotic factor in its environment. B) Its need to find a new habitat. C) The change in an abiotic factor in its environment. D) Its need to find different foods to eat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The change in an abiotic factor in its environment. 5. What is the equation for natural increase? A) BR-DR. B) DR-IM. C) DR X BR. D) Net migration X Natural increase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BR-DR. 6. Populations can change over time. For instance, if weather and climate conditions for oak trees to produce more acorns than usual then the squirrel population will ..... A) Go extinct. B) Increase. C) Decrease. D) Stay the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increase. 7. American bison, which are large grazing mammals, are most often found close together in small groups. What might you infer about the spatial distribution of American bison? A) Clumped. B) Uniform. C) Random. D) Spatial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clumped. 8. An animal that hunts an other animal to eat it, is called a A) Decomposer. B) Herbivore. C) Predator. D) Prey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Predator. 9. This stage of the epidemiological transition describes a reduced mortality associated with infectious diseases and an increase in chronic disorders associated with aging. A) Stage 3. B) Stage 1. C) Stage 2. D) Stage 5. E) Stage 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage 3. 10. A population of 5, 000 grows by 4% each year. What is the population after 5 years? A) 4077 people. B) 6083 people. C) 5849 people. D) 5000 people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 6083 people. 11. A population's ..... is the amount that a population's size changes in a given period of time. A) Growth Rate. B) Carrying Capacity. C) Biome. D) Limiting Factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Growth Rate. 12. There are approximately 17, 620 people per square mile in New York City. If New York City is 468 square miles, approximately how many people live in New York City? A) 8, 246, 160. B) .027. C) 17, 620. D) 37. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8, 246, 160. 13. A school survey asked 50 girls to identify their favorite items on the school cafeteria menu. This sample is ..... A) Biased. B) Representative. C) Unbiased. D) Numerical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biased. 14. Describes how many individuals of different ages make up a population A) The youths collation. B) Age Layout. C) Age Structure. D) Age Spread. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Age Structure. 15. A population gets smaller by ..... A) Immigration and death. B) Immigration and birth. C) Emigration and birth. D) Emigration and death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emigration and death. 16. Groups of individuals of same species that live in the same area A) Organisms. B) Population. C) Species. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 17. What growth model has an J-shaped curve? A) Logistic. B) Exponential. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exponential. 18. Worldwide there were 20 births and 8 deaths per 1000 people in 2017. Calculate the growth rate of the world. A) 1.6%. B) 1.1%. C) 1.2%. D) 2.8%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1.2%. 19. This takes place when organisms move into an area. A) Hibernation. B) Immigration. C) Migration. D) Emigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigration. 20. As toxins move up trophic levels, its concentration A) Is eliminated. B) Decreases. C) Increases. D) Stays the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increases. 21. What is the name of Superman's superdog? A) Laser Beam. B) Fido. C) Krypto. D) Ralf. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Krypto. 22. Which part of China is generally dry? A) East. B) South. C) West. D) North. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) West. 23. Which of these relationships is an example of parasitism? A) Ants protecting a tree that produces the ants' only food. B) A bird building a nest on a tree branch. C) A bat pollinating a saguaro cactus. D) A flea living on a cat's blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A flea living on a cat's blood. 24. Evaluates # of births; # of deaths; and migration A) Logistic Growth. B) Exponential Growth. C) Growth Rate. D) Carrying Capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Growth Rate. 25. Typical population growth is described as: A) Linear growth. B) Exponential growth. C) Logistic growth. D) Logarithmic growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logistic growth. 26. What occurs when organisms leave a population to join another one? A) Emigration. B) Birth rate. C) Immigration. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emigration. 27. Which of the fallowing has only abiotic factors? A) Sunlight, algae, and temperature. B) Guppy, crab, oxygen. C) Sunlight, soil, and weather. D) Algae, temperature, and dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sunlight, soil, and weather. 28. When a person moves OUT of a country, this is considered ..... A) Emigration. B) Increased birth rate. C) Expanding policy. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emigration. 29. A mayor wanted to see if the people in his town thought he was doing a good job.Which choice best represents a statistic? A) The percentage of all townspeople who believe the mayor is doing a good job. B) The percentage of townspeople surveyed who believe the mayor is doing a good job. C) All townspeople. D) A random selection of 100 townspeople. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The percentage of townspeople surveyed who believe the mayor is doing a good job. 30. Which of the following would increase the long-billed curlew population? A) Forest habitats. B) Grassland habitats. C) Pesticide use. D) Milkweed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grassland habitats. 31. Instinctive seasonal movement of a population from place to place: A) Migration. B) Immigration. C) Emigration. D) Hibernation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Migration. 32. What term is given to the averaged number of people living in an area at a given time? A) Population Density. B) Population Distribution. C) Population. D) Natural Increase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 33. Carrying Capacity is A) Wildebeest at a watering hole with zebras. B) The maximum number of individuals that the environment can support. C) How many animals you have in your daily bag limit at the end of the year. D) The capacity of what one person can carry per day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The maximum number of individuals that the environment can support. 34. How does the logistic model of population growth differ from the exponential model? A) The logistic model considers the environment's carrying capacity. B) The graph of the logistic model has a longer lag phase. C) The graph of the exponential model is S shaped. D) The exponential model shows a restricted growth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The logistic model considers the environment's carrying capacity. 35. If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then the population will mostly likely ..... A) Stay the same. B) Decrease. C) Increase. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increase. 36. In which stage(s) of the Demographic Transition are birthrates and death rates both high? A) Stage 4. B) Stage 1. C) Stage 3. D) Stage 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stage 1. 37. One of these is a major cause of rural urban drift ..... A) Advice and action. B) Death rate. C) Increase in money at hand. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Death rate. 38. Limiting factors can only be abiotic factors. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 39. Vikings were ..... that believed in various gods and goddesses. A) Buddist. B) Aristocrats. C) Socrates. D) Pagans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pagans. 40. These countries have higher average incomes, slow population growth, and diverse industrial economies. A) Developing countries. B) Developed countries. C) Transitioning countries. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Developed countries. 41. When calculating population density, what type will always show more people per square mile because it is only counting the ARABLE land? A) Arithmetic Population Density. B) Physiologic Population Density. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physiologic Population Density. 42. A resource population is: A) A flea. B) A population that is traded between organisms. C) A population that is eaten by organisms from another population. D) A population that is avoided by organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A population that is eaten by organisms from another population. 43. Calculate the population density of Country T:(Population = 98, 500 & Area = 1706km$^{2}$) A) 58 people/ km$^{2}$. B) 59 people/ km$^{2}$. C) 57.7 people/ km$^{2}$. D) 56 people/ km$^{2}$. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 58 people/ km$^{2}$. 44. A teacher selects 30 students out of 300 students in grade 6, to participate in a survey about recycling. She asks first 30 students that enters her classroom. Of the 30 students, 25 students refills their water bottles. How many students will refill the bottle? A) 350. B) 500. C) 450. D) 250. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 250. 45. The ..... of an ecosystem increases and decreases as the amount of available resources increases and decreases. A) Biotic potential. B) Carrying capacity. C) Limiting factor. D) Population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carrying capacity. 46. What can happen when two populations compete for the same resource population? A) They will both increase in size. B) A change to one of these populations affects the size of the other. C) Both populations will go extinct. D) The size of the competing populations will remain the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A change to one of these populations affects the size of the other. 47. Rapidly declining crude death rates are found in which stage of the demographic transition model? A) Stage 1. B) Stage 2. C) Stage 4. D) Stage 5. E) Stage 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stage 2. 48. What is the name of the mountain range that runs the length of Italy? A) Apennines. B) Alps. C) Carpathian. D) Andes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apennines. 49. What is the doubling time? A) The number of years it takes for a population to double in size. B) The growth rate of a population. C) The model that uses birthrates and death rates to show how populations in countries or regions change over time. D) The average number of people living on a square mile or square kilometer of land. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The number of years it takes for a population to double in size. 50. Which statement BEST describes where the most densely populated areas of Iraq are located? A) Most are located near the Suez Canal. B) Most are located near the Strait of Hormuz. C) Most are located near the Arabian and Red Seas. D) Most are located near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. E) Most are located near the Jordan River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Most are located near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. 51. ) A school principal wants to determine which subject the 800 students in his school like best. Which choice BEST represents a sample? A) A selection of girls in the school. B) A selection of 80 students in the school. C) All the students in the school. D) All the students in 7th grade. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A selection of 80 students in the school. 52. Anime, a form of art which originates in Japan is very popular here in the US. This is an example of: A) Migration. B) Democratic process. C) Cultural Diffusion. D) Urban Sprawl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cultural Diffusion. 53. At a middle school, the 7th graders will conduct a survey for where to go on a field trip. Which method will result in the least biased decision? A) To randomly ask 8th grade students who went on a field trip last year. B) To randomly choose some 7th grade students to select a location. C) To ask all 7th grade teachers and administrators for a location. D) To ask the student council to choose a location. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To randomly choose some 7th grade students to select a location. 54. 14) Africa is a ..... A) A. Country. B) E. Continent. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) E. Continent. 55. The study of earth's surface and climate, and of human activity, and of the interactions between them. A) Geography. B) Climate. C) Trade. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geography. 56. Countries with high growth rates usually have an age structure that has A) An even distribution over all ages. B) More older people than young people. C) More younger people than older people. D) More middle-aged people than younger people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More younger people than older people. 57. Which population has the greatest potential for rapid growth? A) Populations with a large number of middle aged individuals. B) Older populations. C) Populations with large numbers of young offspring. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Populations with large numbers of young offspring. 58. A graphic device that shows gender and age distribution of a population A) Population map. B) Population density. C) Carrying capacity. D) Population pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population pyramid. 59. A population's ..... is the number of individuals that die over the same time period. A) Birthrate. B) Death rate. C) Extinction. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Death rate. 60. If more foxes move into the same area with rabbits. What will most likely happen to the rabbit population? (foxes eat rabbits) A) The rabbit population will not be affected. B) The rabbit population will decrease. C) The rabbit population will increase. D) The rabbits will equal the foxes. 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