This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Geography > Population > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 18 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How is annual growth rate calculated? A) No of birth in a year. B) No of Death in a year. C) The difference between birth rate and death rate. D) Addition of Birth rate and death rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The difference between birth rate and death rate. 2. All of the populations in a given area make up a ..... A) Ecosystem. B) Habitat. C) Community. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Community. 3. Young adult male chimpanzees look for mates outside their own population. The males then take the females back to their group. Which of the following occurs in females' original population? A) Emigration. B) Immigration. C) Mortality. D) Natality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emigration. 4. In Zoe's geography class, they are learning about how people are spread out over different regions. What is this concept called? A) The number of people living in cities. B) The number of people who move in a year. C) How people are spread out over a region. D) The birth rate in a country. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How people are spread out over a region. 5. What is the main reason people choose to settle in one area and not in another? A) They want to get away from major transportation centers. B) The area has sufficient resources to meet their basic needs. C) They want to live close to friends and family. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They want to live close to friends and family. 6. What 2 factors decrease population size? A) Immigration, Deaths. B) Emigration, Deaths. C) Immigration, Births. D) Emigration, Births. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emigration, Deaths. 7. Two-thirds of the world's population is concentrated in four regions EXCEPT: A) South Asia. B) Southeast Asia. C) North America. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) North America. 8. This is something in an environment like food, water or space that causes a population to decrease. A) Predation. B) Birth rate. C) Death rate. D) Limiting factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limiting factor. 9. Disease and famine A) Push factor. B) Pull factor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Push factor. 10. Japan is made up of "roughly" how many islands? A) 4500. B) 6900. C) 350. D) 2500. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 6900. 11. Something that regulates the size of a population is called ..... A) Biodiversity. B) A limiting measure. C) Carrying capacity. D) A limiting factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A limiting factor. 12. A change in a population from high birthrates and death rates to low birthrates and death rates A) Demography. B) Demographic transition. C) Zero population growth (ZPG). D) Age structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Demographic transition. 13. Mason is considering moving from his rural hometown to a nearby city. What is the main reason people like Mason move from rural areas to urban areas? A) Fewer houses. B) Less traffic. C) Cleaner Air. D) More job opportunities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) More job opportunities. 14. Migration is one of the main causes of population shifts in our world today. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. The ..... is maximum number of individuals of one species that the environment can support. A) Carrying capacity. B) Limiting factor. C) Emigration. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carrying capacity. 16. A consumer population is the population that ..... A) Is eaten by others. B) Eats others. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eats others. 17. In most countries, population is concentrated in cities. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. A river is ..... A) A transportation barrier. B) A transportation corridor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A transportation corridor. 19. What are some characteristics that can determine a carrying capacity? A) Water, oxygen, space, food. B) Amount of cities, neighborhoods, and counties. C) Replacement rate, population pyramid, and physiological population density. D) Dependency ratio, demographic momentum, and number of emmigrants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water, oxygen, space, food. 20. A Coyote eats a rabbit. The rabbit has eaten grass. Select how the flow of energy would look. A) Rabbit< Grass< Coyote. B) Coyote$\rightarrow$ Rabbit$\rightarrow$ Grass. C) Coyote< Rabbit$\rightarrow$ Grass. D) Grass $\rightarrow$ Rabbit$\rightarrow$ Coyote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grass $\rightarrow$ Rabbit$\rightarrow$ Coyote. 21. Based on what you know about Africa's population distribution around geographic features, where do you think most of Egypt's people live? A) In the Sahara desert. B) In the Atlas Mountains. C) In the Great Rift Valley. D) In the Nile River Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the Nile River Valley. 22. The days of the week originated from Viking Gods. A) True. B) False. C) Disagree. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. Largest number of individuals of a population that a given environment can support A) Logistic Growth. B) Exponential Growth. C) Growth Rate. D) Carrying Capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carrying Capacity. 24. What do organisms need in order to reproduce? A) Nothing. B) Air, sunlight, and food. C) Energy storage molecules. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Energy storage molecules. 25. Which of the following means to exit and live in a new country? A) Immigrate. B) Refugee. C) Emigrate. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emigrate. 26. One of these is not a major cause of rural urban drift? A) Poverty. B) Poor social amenities. C) Loss of farmland. D) Search for better education. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loss of farmland. 27. What is Agricultural density? A) The number of farmers per unit area of farmland. B) The amount of arable land per capita. C) The total population divided by the total arable land. D) The total population divided by the total land area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The number of farmers per unit area of farmland. 28. If there are more births than deaths in a population, what will happen to the population of organisms? A) Increase. B) Decrease. C) Stay the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increase. 29. In a population that is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the frequency of the homozygous recessive genotype is 0.09. What is the frequency of individuals that are homozygous for the dominant allele? A) 0.42. B) 0.21. C) 0.49. D) 0.7. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0.49. 30. Which of the following has the levels of organization in increasing order? A) Ecosystem, community, population, habitat, niche, organism. B) Organism, niche, habitat, population, community, ecosystem. C) Community, ecosystem, population, organism, niche, habitat. D) Population, community, habitat, niche, ecosystem, organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organism, niche, habitat, population, community, ecosystem. 31. The name Vikings means ..... A) Pirates. B) Seaferers. C) Raiders. D) Waiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pirates. 32. What country has the largest population in the world? A) Mexico. B) China. C) U.S. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) China. 33. Which stage of the ETM do degenerative diseases happen? A) Stage 5. B) Stage 2. C) Stage 1. D) Stage 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage 3. 34. A population of orcas live in the Atlantic Ocean. Over the last 50 years, the size of the orca population increased. What best explains this increase? A) Many orcas were born and none died. B) Nothing eats orcas so their population is always increasing. C) More orcas were born than died. D) More orcas died than were born. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More orcas were born than died. 35. When organisms move out of the population, this is known as A) Emigration. B) Abandonment. C) Immigration. D) Succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emigration. 36. The younger a woman begins having children, the higher her ..... will be. A) Fertility rate. B) Death rate. C) Literacy rate. D) Population rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fertility rate. 37. The blue butterfly can only be found in the southern coast and northwest coast of Florida. This is the blue butterfly's ..... A) Abundance. B) Geographic range. C) Population growth rate. D) Population size. E) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geographic range. 38. The amount of births that occur within a certain time frame represents the ..... A) Immigration. B) Birth rate. C) Emigration. D) Death rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birth rate. 39. Population drift is a gradual ..... of people that lowers the population in one area and increases in another. A) Catchment. B) Movement. C) Enablement. D) Growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Movement. 40. Stops following a period of exponential growth A) Logistic Growth. B) Carrying Capacity. C) Growth Rate. D) Exponential Growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logistic Growth. 41. What is happening in a population as it decreases? A) More emigration occurs. B) More immigration occurs. C) The birth rate and death rate remain the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More emigration occurs. 42. The maximum number of organisms that can live in a population in a given area (birth rate and death rate are equal) is? A) Population. B) Logistic Population Growth. C) Carrying Capacity. D) Population Density. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carrying Capacity. 43. In which types of countries are populations growing the fastest. A) Least developed countries. B) Middle income countries. C) Less developed countries. D) More developed countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Least developed countries. 44. All the different populations that live together in an area make up a(n) A) Habitat. B) Organism. C) Ecosystem. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Community. 45. The annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1000 live births. A) Infant Mortality Rate. B) Death Rate. C) Infant Birth Rate. D) Population Growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infant Mortality Rate. 46. What is a constant occurrence within any given population of organisms? A) Organisms are always evolving. B) Organisms are always migrating. C) Organisms are always being born and dying. D) Organisms are always adapting to their environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organisms are always being born and dying. 47. The living and nonliving things in an environment and all the interactions A) Population. B) Ecosystem. C) Community. D) Food chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem. 48. Which word correctly fills both blanks:A ..... in the size of a resource population can cause the number of births in its consumer population to ..... A) Competition. B) Change. C) Sample. D) Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Change. 49. Which of the following BEST explains why the population density varies from country to country in Southwest Asia? A) The availability of transportation. B) The availability of desalination. C) The availability of freshwater. D) The availability of education. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The availability of freshwater. 50. Scientists have been studying four populations in one area of the Atlantic Ocean. In this area, both tuna and dolphins eat squid, and squid eat herring (a type of fish). The data shows that recently the tuna population increased. How will the increase in the tuna population affect the other populations? A) Increase Herring. B) Decreased Herring. C) Same Amount of Herring. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increase Herring. 51. A population is ..... A) A group of one species in one area. B) Multiple species that live in one area. C) All of the living and nonliving things in an area. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A group of one species in one area. 52. Which factor would contribute to an exponential growth rate in a given population? A) Higher death rates. B) Lower birth rates. C) Less competition. D) Less resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Less competition. 53. A company makes DVDs and randomly selects 200 from 1500 to test them to see if they work. A) Biased. B) Unbiased. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unbiased. 54. A species whose population is at risk of extinction. A) Extinct species. B) Exponential species. C) Threatened species. D) Endangered species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Endangered species. 55. An indirect effect is when ..... ? A) When a caterpillar may exert a direct effect on a plant by eating it. B) The result of one cause leading to an effect that causes one or more effects. C) When nothing is effected. D) When several causes lead directly to several effects. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The result of one cause leading to an effect that causes one or more effects. 56. Density dependent (DD) limiting factors are things that impact a population differently based on the size of the population. Often time large populations are impacted the most. Which of the following is NOT a density dependent limiting factor? A) Competition. B) Predation. C) A hurricane. D) Disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A hurricane. 57. Ana wants to know the average student's opinion of the tardy policy at her school. Which group of students should she survey in order to achieve the most accurate results? A) Thirty students who are often tardy. B) Thirty students who are rarely tardy. C) Thirty of her friends. D) Thirty randomly selected students from her school. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thirty randomly selected students from her school. 58. What is an example of an ethnic enclave? A) Vatican city, Italy. B) Atlanta, Georgia. C) Little Italy. D) Lesotho, South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Little Italy. 59. What pattern of growth will a population with limited resources show? A) Logistic. B) Logical. C) Density-dependent. D) Exponential. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logistic. 60. Which of the following is true about deer and wolf populations? A) The deer population has no effect on the wolf population. B) As the wolf population decreases, the deer population also will decrease. C) As the wolf population increases, the deer population decreases. D) As the wolf population increases, the deer population also increases. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) As the wolf population increases, the deer population decreases. ← 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