This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Geography > Population > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 17 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the following data set: ..... a manager of a movie theater was asking customers at the concession stand how they would rate the theater's staff A) Population. B) Sample. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sample. 2. These countries have the highest birth (fertility) rates A) Developing countries. B) Urbanized countries. C) Developed countries. D) Over developed countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Developing countries. 3. An example of a transportation barrier is ..... A) Something that allows movement. B) Something that blocks movement. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Something that blocks movement. 4. The number of wild horses per square kilometer in a prairie is the horse population's: A) Size. B) Dispersion. C) Birth rate. D) Density. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Density. 5. Number of individuals per unit area A) Growth Rate. B) Population Density. C) Geographic Distribution. D) Age Structure. E) Dispersion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population Density. 6. A dog and a cat are different A) Communities. B) Densities. C) Species. D) Abundances. E) Ecosystems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Species. 7. The number of people per unit of area. A) Fertility Rate. B) Population Density. C) Population. D) Population Growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population Density. 8. The United States ranks 2nd out of 221 countries for infant mortality. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 9. A species that has died out, and no individuals are left: A) Extinct. B) Endangered. C) Threatened. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extinct. 10. Areas that have a very low population density are called ..... A) Scarcely populated. B) Densely populated. C) Medium populated. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scarcely populated. 11. Which of the following means to move into in another country? A) Immigrate. B) Refugee. C) Emigrate. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immigrate. 12. The names of the week originated from Vikings Gods. A) True. B) False. C) I don't know. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. How are stage 1 and stage 4 of the DTM similar? A) Both have low growth rates. B) Both have high dependency ratios. C) Both have low dependency ratios. D) Both have low life expectancy. E) Both have low death rates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both have low growth rates. 14. The Earth area of permanent human settlement is called the A) Subpolar region. B) Civilized world. C) Hot zone. D) Ecumene. E) Geophenom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecumene. 15. Which of the following is NOT an example of a Density Dependent Factor? A) Natural Disasters. B) Predation. C) Parasitism. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural Disasters. 16. When an organism leaves a population they are ..... A) Emigrating. B) Immigrating. C) Unpopulating. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emigrating. 17. Which meaning goes with the Latin prefix Geo- A) Living Things. B) Air. C) Land. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Land. 18. The study of human population patterns A) Demography. B) Migration. C) Life expectancy. D) Survivorship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Demography. 19. All of the living organisms living in an area A) Hibernation. B) Community. C) Ecosystem. D) Habitat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Community. 20. $_{If the amount of food or resources available increases, the carrying capacity for an animal:}$ A) Increases. B) Decreases. C) Stays the same. D) Fluctuates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increases. 21. A region with fertile soil and a mild climate has a high population. Using evidence, explain why this is the case. A) Fertile soil and mild climate support agriculture and comfortable living. B) Fertile soil makes it hard to build houses. C) Mild climate causes frequent storms. D) High population is unrelated to soil and climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fertile soil and mild climate support agriculture and comfortable living. 22. Worldwide, there are more than ..... species that are endangered or threatened! A) 5000. B) 3000. C) 4000. D) 2000. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4000. 23. A factor that draws or attracts people to another location A) Push factor. B) Pull factor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pull factor. 24. Which of the following illustrates a pull factor-something that attracts people to an area? A) Moving to avoid catching a disease. B) Moving to avoid a war zone. C) Moving after an earthquake destroys your home. D) Moving to find a new job. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moving to find a new job. 25. We can assume that the principal reason for declining natural increase rates in less developed countries today is A) Increasing crude death rates. B) Declining crude birth rates. C) Increasing crude birth rates. D) Declining crude death rates. E) Balanced natural increase rates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Declining crude birth rates. 26. How tall is the tallest person in class? A) STATISTICAL. B) NONSTATISTICAL. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NONSTATISTICAL. 27. Before a nation wide election, a polling place was trying to see who would win.Which choice best represents a sample? A) A selection of voters over age 50. B) A selection of male voters. C) A random selection of voters of different ages. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A random selection of voters of different ages. 28. Which of the following best describes a way people have modified the environment for transportation? A) Fishing in rivers. B) Observing birds. C) Building highways. D) Planting trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Building highways. 29. One major cause of population growth is a falling death rate. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. A new cable TV station wants to study the viewing habits of households. The station surveys every household that purchased a new TV within the last 2 years in New York. Is this random sampling? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 31. When two or more individuals or populations try to use the same limited resource (e.g. food, water, shelter, sunlight) it is called ..... A) Limiting factor. B) Symbiosis. C) Competition. D) Cooperation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Competition. 32. Limiting factors can be biotic or abiotic factors A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 33. The movement of individuals into an area is known as: A) Eradication. B) Emigration. C) Supplementation. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immigration. 34. What was the population density of India in 2001 census? A) 324 person per sq. km. B) 824 person per sq. km. C) 524 person per sq. km. D) 224 person per sq. km. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 324 person per sq. km. 35. All the organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time. A) Biosphere. B) Ecosystem. C) Population. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 36. ..... is an abiotic factor in the environment that is important for plants to make their own food. A) Worms. B) Rocks. C) Mushrooms. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxygen. 37. Which of the following is a NONLIVING part of an ecosystem? A) Pebbles. B) Flowers. C) Jellyfish. D) Plankton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pebbles. 38. The Magic Kingdom theme park has many attractions, one of which is Space Mountain. Are the people who ride Space Mountain the population, or a sample, of the theme park? Explain. A) Population. They are all the people at the theme park. B) Sample. They are a subset of all the people at the theme park. C) Both population and sample. They are all the people at the theme park. D) Neither population nor sample. They are not the people at the theme park. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sample. They are a subset of all the people at the theme park. 39. Without other changes to a population, which of the following will cause a population to increase in size? A) The birth rate equals the death rate. B) The birth rate is less than the death rate. C) The birth rate is greater than the death rate. D) The birth rate and the death rate both equal 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The birth rate is greater than the death rate. 40. If the amount of available food decreases, what do you think happens to a population of meerkats? A) Some might move away to find food elsewhere. B) The population will thrive. C) The population will remain the same. D) The population will become larger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Some might move away to find food elsewhere. 41. A density-dependent limiting factor only becomes limiting if: A) A population begins to decrease in size. B) Random events occur in nature. C) There are predator-prey interactions. D) A population reaches its carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A population reaches its carrying capacity. 42. A store manager selects 30 cartons of eggs and finds 4 cartons that have cracked eggs. If the store has 105 cartons of eggs, how many cartons can she expect to have cracked eggs in them? A) 7.5 cartons. B) 14 cartons. C) 26 cartons. D) 15 cartons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14 cartons. 43. Describes the area in which a certain population lives A) Carrying Capacity. B) Geographic distribution. C) Crowdedness. D) Population Density. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geographic distribution. 44. What is carrying capacity? A) The maximum number of different species in an area. B) The number of organisms that can migrate to an area. C) The number of organisms of one species that can be supported in an environment. D) The number of predators an area can support. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The number of organisms of one species that can be supported in an environment. 45. Check the Density independent factors A) A hurricane reduces the spider monkey population. B) Wolves capture and consume deer. C) Two male cardinals compete for the same female. D) A disease wipes out 25% of the gopher population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A hurricane reduces the spider monkey population. 46. True or False:Nonliving and dead mean the same thing. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 47. A local candle store surveys 50 customers to find out their opinion on a new scented candle. The customers were chosen randomly from the store mailing list. Is this sampling method random? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 48. When bluejays, mice, trees, and squirrels live in the same area, this is an example of a A) Community. B) Niche. C) Ecosystem. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Community. 49. In Mason's town, what happens when the population exceeds its carrying capacity? A) Resources like food and water may become scarce (limited). B) The population gets healthier. C) There are fewer people moving out of the region. D) The region's population automatically decreases. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resources like food and water may become scarce (limited). 50. What is a country characterized by low levels of industrialization, low GDP per capita, high levels of poverty, and often a high birth rate? A) MEDC. B) Birth Rate. C) LEDC. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) LEDC. 51. What is the best way to collect a sample of a population? A) Collect data from only one place. B) Collect data from only once place one time. C) Collect data from multiple places. D) Collect data from multiple places and multiple times. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collect data from multiple places and multiple times. 52. If the number of births is greater than the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population? A) It will increase. B) It will stay the same. C) It will fluctuate. D) It will decrease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It will increase. 53. A school surveys all 7th grade boys to determine what to sell in the school store. This sample is ..... A) Representative. B) Unbiased. C) Biased. D) Peanut butter cups. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biased. 54. All the populations of different species that live in the same area at the same time. A) Population. B) Biosphere. C) Ecosystem. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Community. 55. What is population distribution? A) The number of people living on a square mile or square kilometer of land. B) The variations in population that occur across a country, a continent, or the world. C) The growth rate of a population. D) The movement of people from place to place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The variations in population that occur across a country, a continent, or the world. 56. Birchland Park Middle School is the best middle school on the ..... A) The worldwide web. B) Eastern Seaboard. C) United states. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The worldwide web. 57. This takes place when organisms leave one area and go to another. A) Hibernation. B) Immigration. C) Emigration. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emigration. 58. The rate at which population is growing, found by subtracting the mortality rate from the birthrate. (Also called population growth rate.) A) Pull rate. B) Push rate. C) Rate of natural increase. D) Population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rate of natural increase. 59. Why are people concerned with the introduction of non-native species? A) They compete with native species. B) They cannot survive as well as natives. C) They are preferable to native species. D) They can adapt quicker than natives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They compete with native species. 60. You want to study a random sample of 4 out of 26 students in your class. Describe a process you could use to create a random sample with 4 subjects. A) Assign each student a number in alphabetical order, then select 4 random numbers. B) Assign each student a number, then select students 1 through 4. C) Select 4 students who sit close to you. D) Select the 4 students whose names come first alphabetically. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assign each student a number in alphabetical order, then select 4 random numbers. ← 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