This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Geography > Population > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is land suitable for growing crops called? A) Growing land. B) Arable land. C) The best land. D) Croptastic land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arable land. 2. At one point in time, while driving between Ft Worth and Dallas, there was open pasture land. Now it is all city landscape. This is an example of: A) Natural Increase. B) Cultural Diffusion. C) Urban Sprawl. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Urban Sprawl. 3. To artificially water crops: A) Oasis. B) Tributary. C) Harmattan. D) Irrigation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irrigation. 4. Which best describes the climate of much of Southwest Asia? A) WIndy and cold. B) Moderate and cool. C) Tropical and rainy. D) Hot and dry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hot and dry. 5. Depends on population size A) Limiting Factor. B) Density-Independent Limiting Factor. C) Density-Dependent Limiting Factor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Density-Dependent Limiting Factor. 6. An example of a resource population would be ..... ? A) Mountain lions eating deer. B) Zooplankton eating zooplankton. C) None of the above. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mountain lions eating deer. 7. True or False:Within a population organisms are always being born and dying. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. The age and gender composition of a population, usually depicted as a population pyramid. A) Population Growth. B) Population Structure. C) Population Increase Table. D) Overpopulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population Structure. 9. Affect all population in similar ways A) Limiting Factor. B) Density-Independent Limiting Factor. C) Density-Dependent Limiting Factor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Density-Independent Limiting Factor. 10. What is an example of a density-dependent factor affecting bears? A) Floods reducing food supply. B) Competition for food among bears. C) Unusual weather patterns. D) Volcanic eruptions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Competition for food among bears. 11. All of the Red Oak trees growing in a forest A) Community. B) Ecosystem. C) Population. D) Bacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 12. When a population is stable: A) The are fewer births than deaths. B) The number of births and deaths are equal. C) The number of births is greater than the number of deaths. D) Organisms are not dying or being born at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The number of births and deaths are equal. 13. All the members of one species (organisms) that live within an area of an ecosystem is a? A) Population. B) Community. C) Niche. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population. 14. What is a massive wave usually caused by an earthquake called? A) Fault Line. B) Tsunami. C) Hurricane. D) Tectonic Plate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tsunami. 15. Which state has the highest population density? A) Uttar Pradesh. B) Haryana. C) Bihar. D) Madhya Pradersh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bihar. 16. Changes in the size, composition, rates of growth, and density of population; changes to fertility and mortality rates; and changes to patterns of migration. A) Death Rate. B) Fertility Rate. C) Demographic Changes. D) Population Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demographic Changes. 17. In our Amplify unit question, what are we trying to answer? A) Why are there so many different species living in Glacier Sea?. B) Why did the population of moon jellies in Glacier Sea mysteriously increase?. C) How has climate change affected Glacier Sea?. D) Why is the moon jelly the only type of jelly in Glacier Sea?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Why did the population of moon jellies in Glacier Sea mysteriously increase?. 18. The human population experienced exponential growth just after A) Plowing and irrigation began. B) The bubonic plague began. C) Agriculture began. D) The Industrial Revolution began. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Industrial Revolution began. 19. The world population is estimated to grow to what size by 2050? A) Less than 3 billion. B) Over 9.8 billion. C) 22 trillion. D) Over 9.8 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Over 9.8 billion. 20. Country A has a physiological density of 2, 300 and an arithmetic density of 84, this means that A) Many farmers are out of work. B) There are a large number of farmers. C) A small percentage of land is arable. D) Too many people for available resources. E) Too few farmers for large area of arable land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A small percentage of land is arable. 21. If over a long period of time each pair of adults in a population had only two offspring and the offspring lived to reproduce, the population will A) Grow. B) Shrink. C) Remain the same. D) Disperse randomly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Remain the same. 22. Use the following information to answer the questions below.Albinism is a hereditary disease due to the absence of the skin pigment melanin. The allele for albinism is recessive to the allele for normal pigmentation. One person in 10, 000 is an albino.What is the frequency of the dominant allele? A) 0.99. B) 0.09. C) 0.10. D) 0.01. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0.99. 23. Which area is most likely to have the LOWEST population density? A) A city with many jobs and access to trade. B) A small town with access to a railroad line. C) A farming community with many types of farms. D) A suburb in Canada with access to major highways. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A farming community with many types of farms. 24. A city's population is 12, 000 and it decreases by 2% annually. Which equation represents the population after t years? A) $P(t)=12000(1.02)^t$. B) $P(t)=12000(1.02t)$. C) $P(t)=12000(0.98t)$. D) $P(t)=12000(0.98)^t$. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) $P(t)=12000(0.98)^t$. 25. Emigration means to "move out" A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 26. This term refers to the spreading of something from one place to another, and might relate to the physical movement of people or the spread of disease, or the spread of ideas, technology, etc. A) Relative location. B) Diffusion. C) Spatial perspective. D) Human geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diffusion. 27. What is an ecosystems? A) Where only plants live. B) Where only animals live. C) Where everything, living and nonliving, interact with each other. D) A group of the same organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Where everything, living and nonliving, interact with each other. 28. In the 1800s, human population growth A) Began to level off for several decades. B) Increased because of a decline in death rates. C) Increased because of an increase in birth rates. D) Suddenly fell because of an outbreak of bubonic plague. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increased because of a decline in death rates. 29. The following are all physical factors affecting population density? A) The local climate and stable governement. B) The local relief, climate and soils. C) The vegetation, trading links, and locally available natural resources. D) The accessibility and availability of markets for trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The local relief, climate and soils. 30. Which of the following is a way people have modified the environment to improve transportation? A) Building bridges over rivers. B) Planting gardens. C) Using solar panels. D) Observing animal migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Building bridges over rivers. 31. The percentage by which a population grows in years is called the A) Natural increase rate. B) Total fertility rate. C) Crude birth rate. D) Life expectancy. E) Doubling time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural increase rate. 32. A rapid increase in population numbers-can only continue until resources become limited is ..... A) Logistic population growth. B) Exponential population growth. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exponential population growth. 33. A toy store owner tracking how much kids spend each month on toys. Which choice best represents a sample? A) 264 boys and girls in the toy store. B) All of the kids who buy toys. C) 257 boys age 7-15. D) 211 rich kids. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 264 boys and girls in the toy store. 34. Compete for Limited resource A) Competition. B) Predator. C) Prey. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Competition. 35. If the same amount of organisms are born and die in population, what will happen to its population? A) It will stay stable. B) It will increase. C) It will decrease. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It will stay stable. 36. A population of middle school students consists of 100 boys and 250 girls. If a representative sample from this population contains 20 boys, how many girls would be expected in this sample? A) 8. B) 30. C) 60. D) 50. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 50. 37. Priya is planning a weekend getaway. What type of environment is a rural area? A) A downtown district. B) A small beach town. C) Crowded city. D) Countryside or farming region. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Countryside or farming region. 38. What is the calculation of the number of births in a population each year? A) Death rate. B) Birth rate. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birth rate. 39. A small part that is meant to show what the whole is like ..... ? A) A fraction. B) Competition. C) A sample. D) A piece of something. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A sample. 40. A/an ..... is all the living organisms that live in an area and the non-living features of their environment. A) Population. B) Ecosystem. C) Community. D) Organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem. 41. Movement of individuals out of an area. A) Emmigration. B) Immigration. C) Migration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emmigration. 42. A population pyramid that shows rapid growth will have what type of shape? A) A narrower middle and wide bottom. B) Almost equal at middle and bottom. C) Narrower at bottom than middle. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A narrower middle and wide bottom. 43. How is density of population calculated? A) Population density is calculated as the total number of persons living per square Meter area. B) Population density is calculated as the total number of persons living per State. C) Population density is calculated as the total number of persons living in Country. D) Population density is calculated as the total number of persons living per square km area. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population density is calculated as the total number of persons living per square km area. 44. The long-term trends in weather elements and atmospheric conditions. A) Location. B) Geography. C) Climate. D) Economic activity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climate. 45. Where is Bastar located? A) Uttar Pradesh. B) Chhattisgarh. C) Gujrat. D) Bihar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chhattisgarh. 46. A community in a mountainous area needs to transport goods to other regions. What is a strategic modification they could make, and why? A) Building tunnels or roads through the mountains to improve transportation. B) Planting more trees on the mountains. C) Avoiding all trade with other regions. D) Using only footpaths. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Building tunnels or roads through the mountains to improve transportation. 47. The number of children a woman and her reproductive partner must have to replace themselves. The worldwide average is usually just above two children per couple because some children die before they reach their reproductive years. A) Population Growth. B) Birth Rate. C) Fertility Rate. D) Replacement-Level Fertility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Replacement-Level Fertility. 48. Solve the inequality:12 $\geq$ 6(12x+3). A) $-\frac{1}{12}\ge x$. B) $-\frac{5}{12}\ge x$. C) $-\frac{1}{12}\le x$. D) $-\frac{5}{12}\le x$. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $-\frac{1}{12}\ge x$. 49. The captain of the basketball team wants to determine where the team should go for their end-of-season celebration. Which of the following is a representative sample? Select all that apply. A) The students in her homeroom. B) Players whose names are randomly selected from a hat. C) The players in the starting lineup. D) All players over 5 feet tall. E) Every 5th player selected from an alphabetical roster of the team. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Every 5th player selected from an alphabetical roster of the team. 50. Although China has the largest population in the world, what explains the country's declining NIR? A) AIDS pandemic. B) Famine. C) A 30-year population control policy. D) A high number of emigrants leaving China. E) Government provided contraceptives. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A 30-year population control policy. 51. In the simulation, greenleaf plants are eaten by weebugs, and weebugs are eaten by furbils. Will changing the size of the furbil population affect the greenleaf plants? A) Yes, because items in the food web can indirectly affect one another. B) No, because furbils don't eat greenleaf plants. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes, because items in the food web can indirectly affect one another. 52. Scarlett is studying the local ecosystem for her biology project. She wants to understand what carrying capacity means in this context. What is carrying capacity? A) The size of the land area in a region. B) The maximum population an area can sustainably support. C) The speed at which the population grows. D) The number of people living in the city. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The maximum population an area can sustainably support. 53. A scientist studies a herd of deer at a local state park to learn about their dietary habits.Identify the population. A) All animals. B) Deer. C) The herd of deer at the local state park. D) All animals at the park other than deer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deer. 54. What term is given to the way in which people are spread out over an area? A) Natural Increase. B) Population Distribution. C) Birth Rate. D) Population Density. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population Distribution. 55. Biotic means ..... A) Living. B) Non-living. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Living. 56. How many pairs of shoes does each student in our class have? A) Statistical. B) Non-Statistical. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Statistical. 57. What does birth rate mean? A) The number of babies born per 1000 of the population. B) The number of babies born per 1000 of the population per year. C) The number of babies born per 100 of the population. D) The number of babies that live in a country. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The number of babies born per 1000 of the population per year. 58. Movement of individuals into an area A) Carrying Capacity. B) Immigration. C) Emigration. D) Growth Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigration. 59. The total fertility rate needed for a population to replace itself is called ..... ? A) Replacement Rate. B) Replacer Head. C) Reborn Ratio. D) Balance Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Replacement Rate. 60. In order to understand how many individuals live in a certain area you need to know this. A) Community. B) Population. C) Predatory organisms. D) Population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population density. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeography QuizzesClass 9 QuizzesClass 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 1Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 2Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 3Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 4Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 5Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 6Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 7Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books