This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Geography > Population > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is an example of an antinatal policy? A) China's one-child policy. B) India's two-child policy. C) USA's unlimited child policy. D) Japan's policy on having at least one child. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) China's one-child policy. 2. Many groups of species living together in an area is a(n) A) Habitat. B) Community. C) Population. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Community. 3. In which situation is a country most likely to adopt a "pronatalist" policy? A) A country with many children under ten and few elderly people over 50. B) A country with many elderly people over 50 and few children under ten. C) A country with a similar number of people in all age groups. D) A country with low death rates and high birth rates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A country with many elderly people over 50 and few children under ten. 4. The number of live births per total population, often expressed per thousand population A) Mortality rate. B) Population increase rate. C) Birthrate. D) Death rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birthrate. 5. This happens when organisms work together to get resources, which in turn causes populations to grow ..... A) Cooperation. B) Competition. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cooperation. 6. Which ocean is Japan surrounded by? A) Arctic Ocean. B) Pacific Ocean. C) Indian Ocean. D) Atlantic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pacific Ocean. 7. Factor that controls the growth of a population A) Limiting factor. B) Single factor. C) Limiting nutrient. D) Demography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting factor. 8. The number of old and young dependents, who don't work, compared with the working age population is ..... ? A) Dependency Ratio. B) Equivalent Exchange. C) Replacement Rate. D) Comparison Dynamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dependency Ratio. 9. The number of organisms a piece of land can support without negative effects A) Population threshold. B) Habitable land. C) Uninhabitable land. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carrying capacity. 10. Which of the following illustrates a push factor-something that drives people from an area? A) Moving to go to school. B) Moving after an earthquake destroys your home. C) Moving to be with family. D) Moving to find a new job. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moving after an earthquake destroys your home. 11. The replacement rate of the US is ..... A) 0.5. B) 2.1. C) 1.2. D) 2.3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2.1. 12. What is an example of how a high human population density can affect that population's health? A) Diseases are likely to disappear. B) Diseases are likely to travel very quickly throughout the population. C) Diseases are likely to travel less quickly throughout the population. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diseases are likely to travel very quickly throughout the population. 13. A public library asked every 10th person who entered to name the type of book they were getting A) Biased. B) Unbiased. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unbiased. 14. Mrs. Boyd wants to find the average height of all her students in her classes. She decides to use the first 5 people who walk in the door. Is this a good representative sample? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 15. A group of only one type of organism is a A) Community. B) Ecosystem. C) Population. D) Niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 16. A desert is ..... A) A transportation barrier. B) A transportation corridor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A transportation barrier. 17. Which of the following is an example of a parasitic relationship? A) Bee stinger in your arm. B) Honeybee on a flower. C) Lion hunting zebras. D) Worm in your intestine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Worm in your intestine. 18. ..... the way individuals are arranged in space A) Dispersion. B) Population density. C) Population size. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dispersion. 19. Energy storage molecules are: A) Molecules required only for the birth rate. B) A molecule organisms use to stabilize a population. C) A molecule that organisms can use to release the energy needed to survive. D) Potatoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A molecule that organisms can use to release the energy needed to survive. 20. Due to stress, large numbers of female lemmings miscarry their young and fail to reproduce. A) Density-Dependent. B) Density-Independent. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Density-Dependent. 21. What will happen to the population when the death rate is larger than the birth rate? A) Grow. B) Shrink. C) Stay the same. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shrink. 22. What is the difference between the death rate and the birth rate in a population over a specific period, representing the population growth due to births exceeding deaths? A) Immigration. B) Natural Increase. C) Natural Decrease. D) Emigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural Increase. 23. Why is the population so low in northern and western China? A) There is an abundance of rainfall in this area. B) There are too many resources for people to choose from. C) There is very little rainfall and the temperatures can be extreme. D) The land is too fertile for people to grow crops. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There is very little rainfall and the temperatures can be extreme. 24. A community is a level in organization that is ..... A) Made of populations of different species that live in the same place and interact. B) A single individual species of organisms that are similar. C) All the individual organisms of the same species in the same place. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Made of populations of different species that live in the same place and interact. 25. Which of the following genotypes describes a frequency of homozygous? A) P$^{2}$. B) 2pq. C) Q$^{2}$. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 26. Tsunamis (huge waves) are caused by what? A) Massive snow storms. B) Landslides from mountains. C) Undersea monsters. D) Undersea earthquakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Undersea earthquakes. 27. The place where someone or something is. A) Natural Resources. B) Climate. C) Location. D) Trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Location. 28. Factors like predation can have a positive benefit to the population of prey organisms because predators tend to keep prey populations below their ..... A) Carrying capacity. B) Exponential growth point. C) Competition level. D) Sustainibility number. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carrying capacity. 29. Which of the following does not affect the spatial distribution of a population? A) The carrying capacity of a population. B) The distribution of food and other resources. C) The existence of predators or parasites. D) Abiotic conditions like rainfall and sunlight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The carrying capacity of a population. 30. A situation where the number of individuals in a population is lower than the carrying capacity of the environment, potentially resulting in underutilization of resources and a decline in economic and social activity. A) Population Growth. B) Population Explosion. C) Carrying Capacity. D) Underpopulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Underpopulation. 31. Which of the following is NOT a density-dependent factor? A) Parasitism. B) Disease. C) Competition. D) Floods. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Floods. 32. What is a pandemic? A) A disease that affects a small community. B) A disease that affects only animals. C) A disease that affects a specific region. D) A disease that affects a large population across multiple countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A disease that affects a large population across multiple countries. 33. How many individuals make up a population A) Population Size. B) Population Density. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population Size. 34. If a population could grow in perfect conditions with no limiting factors, it would reach its ..... A) Biotic potential. B) Population density. C) Population. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic potential. 35. According to 2001 census, which state is most populous? A) Uttar Pradesh. B) Bihar. C) Gujrat. D) Tamilnadu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uttar Pradesh. 36. Human populations sometimes cause other populations to move. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 37. If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then ..... A) Populations will stay the same. B) Populations will decrease. C) Populations will increase. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Populations will increase. 38. Marcos wants to find out how many students at his school like to go to the movies. Which survey method is likely to produce a representative survey? A) Ask the boys in the boys locker room. B) Ask the 70 students randomly selected generated by the computer from the school list of all students. C) Ask students coming out of a movie theater. D) Ask half of the 34 students on the soccer team. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ask the 70 students randomly selected generated by the computer from the school list of all students. 39. A collection of living organisms that interact with one another in an ecosystem. A) Community. B) Ecosphere. C) Ecosystem. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Community. 40. TRUE OR FALSE? The world's population will continue to grow at a quicker and quicker pace during the 21st century. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 41. Number of births per year for every 1, 000 people A) Natural increase. B) Migration. C) Death rate. D) Birth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Birth rate. 42. What will happen to the size of the population if there are more births than deaths? A) The size of the population will fluctuate. B) The size of the population will decrease. C) The size of the population will increase. D) The size of the population will remain stable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The size of the population will increase. 43. In an ecosystem, rabbits eat grass, and coyotes eat rabbits. All living things also need water, shelter, and mates to survive. Which of these situations will cause an increase in the population of rabbits? A) The water becomes polluted. B) The coyote population increases. C) Deer, which also eat grass, enter the ecosystem. D) An increase in rain causes more grass to grow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An increase in rain causes more grass to grow. 44. Which of the following is an example of an abiotic limiting factor on population size? A) Availability of food. B) Water availability. C) Predation. D) Disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water availability. 45. Based on your reading notes about the Demographic Transition, which of the following nations would likely be in Stage 4 of the model? A) Nigeria. B) Mexico. C) United States. D) Pakistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) United States. 46. The Vikings society was divided into ..... A) Pels, trails, &Jaris. B) Trails, karls &jaris. C) Trails, Karis& Jars. D) Kyle, rule & while. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trails, karls &jaris. 47. Population drift can also be ..... A) Immigration. B) Emigration. C) All of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 48. How is death rate counted? A) No of Death in a year. B) Death rate is the number of deaths per thousand persons in a year. C) Death rate is the number of deaths per hundred persons in a year. D) Total population minus no of death in a year. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Death rate is the number of deaths per thousand persons in a year. 49. All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ..... A) Community. B) Ecosystem. C) Habitat. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem. 50. The ..... is the number of people in a population that can read and write A) Literacy rate. B) Death rate. C) Fertility rate. D) Population rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literacy rate. 51. What is Doubling time? A) The time it takes for a resource to double in quantity. B) The time it takes for a technology to double in efficiency. C) The time it takes for a population to double in size. D) The time it takes for a country's GDP to double. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The time it takes for a population to double in size. 52. Brady surveys 100 moviegoers that entered the movie theater in the first hour. Is this sampling method random? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 53. In a Hardy-Weinberg population, the frequency of the a allele is 0.4. What is the frequency of individuals with Aa genotype? A) 0.60. B) 0.48. C) 0.16. D) 0.20. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0.48. 54. A population of frogs in a pond began with 67 individuals. Over one year, the population changed to 53.Which are two possible reasons for the change within the frog population? A) Emigration or increase in death rate. B) Emigration or increase in birth rate. C) Immigration or decrease in death rate. D) Immigration or increase in birth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emigration or increase in death rate. 55. A government wants to connect two cities separated by a wide river. What is a strategic way to modify the environment, and what is the benefit? A) Building a bridge to allow easier transportation and trade. B) Planting trees along the river. C) Limiting all travel between the cities. D) Building a dam for recreation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Building a bridge to allow easier transportation and trade. 56. What is Crude Death Rate? A) The total number of deaths in a year for every 100 people alive in the society. B) The total number of deaths in a year for every 10, 000 people alive in the society. C) The total number of deaths in a year for every 1, 000, 000 people alive in the society. D) The total number of deaths in a year for every 1, 000 people alive in the society. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The total number of deaths in a year for every 1, 000 people alive in the society. 57. What could be a limiting factor for a population of plant undergoing photosynthesis? A) Sunlight. B) Nitrogen. C) Decomposers. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sunlight. 58. Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are called A) Limiting factors. B) Species. C) Biotic. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting factors. 59. A bird that feeds at night and a bird that feeds during the day from the same flower is an example of A) Direct competition. B) Indirect commensalism. C) Mutualism. D) Indirect competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indirect competition. 60. 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