This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Geography > Population > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 19 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Amount by which a Population Size Changes in an Given Time Period A) Rate of change. B) Population Growth. C) Population Density. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population Growth. 2. Number of deaths per year for every 1, 000 people A) Birth rate. B) Migration. C) Natural increase. D) Death rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Death rate. 3. What is the study of human population and how it changes over time? A) Geography. B) Alchemy. C) History. D) Demography. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Demography. 4. What is a group of organisms that have similar traits and are able to produce fertile offspring? A) Competition. B) Community. C) Population. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Species. 5. Population size factors (4) A) Under ideal conditions with unlimited resources, a population will grow exponentially. B) Immigration, Emigration, Birth rate, and Death rate that change a population's size. C) An environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing. D) Mechanism of population control in which a population is regulated by predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigration, Emigration, Birth rate, and Death rate that change a population's size. 6. A town's population is 10, 000 and it decreases by 1% per year. Which equation represents the population after t years? A) $P(t)=10000(1.01)^t$. B) $P(t)=10000(1.01t)$. C) $P(t)=10000(0.99t)$. D) $P(t)=10000(0.99)^t$. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) $P(t)=10000(0.99)^t$. 7. Which of these is not one of the properties of a population? A) Degree. B) Density. C) Dispersion. D) Size. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Degree. 8. A push factor is ..... A) Something good that is pulling people to move. B) Something bad that is pushing people to move. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Something bad that is pushing people to move. 9. Several populations living and interacting with other populations in an ecosystem is a(n) A) Niche. B) Community. C) Ecosystem. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Community. 10. William is studying population statistics. What is the death rate? A) The number of people who die in a natural disaster. B) The number of elderly people in a county. C) The number of funerals in a year. D) The number of deaths per 1000 people in a year. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The number of deaths per 1000 people in a year. 11. If a country has a population of 6 million in 2015, 9 million in 2025, and 12 million in 2035, then what is the doubling time for that country's population? A) 20 years. B) 10 years. C) 5 years. D) 15 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 20 years. 12. What time did the students in class wake up this morning? A) STATISTICAL. B) NONSTATISTICAL. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) STATISTICAL. 13. 10) What of the following countries is in South America? A) Paraguay. B) Guatemala. C) Mexico. D) South Korea. E) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paraguay. 14. What is the primary factor that drives population dynamics in an ecosystem? A) Technological advancements. B) Human activities. C) Availability of resources. D) Climate change. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Availability of resources. 15. What is the term for the largest number of individuals of a particular species that a particular environment can support? A) Density-independent factor. B) Limiting factor. C) Carrying capacity. D) Density-dependent factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carrying capacity. 16. A music store gives comment cards to all members of its Jazz Club to find out about satisfaction with the club's features. Identify the sample. A) People who play instruments. B) All music store customers except Jazz Club members. C) All music store customers. D) Jazz Club members. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jazz Club members. 17. Why are the areas around Southern and Eastern Asia's rivers so heavily populated? A) Rivers are a source of irrigation for farming. B) Rivers provide water for drinking. C) Rivers can be used for transportation and shipping. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. The average number of years a person lives A) Mortality Rate. B) Infant Mortality Rate. C) Life Expectancy. D) Death Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life Expectancy. 19. Lions prey on zebras A) Abiotic factor. B) Biotic factor. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biotic factor. 20. The trees, air, water, squirrels, and sunlight. A) A population. B) An ecosystem. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An ecosystem. 21. An ecosystem includes all the ..... things in an area. A) Living and non-living. B) Living. C) Non-living. D) Living and non-believing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Living and non-living. 22. True or False. Changes in environmental factors, such as temperature, food availability, water, and shelter, will not change the size of a population. A) True. B) False-will. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False-will. 23. As a population of a species increases within a territory, which of the following most likely also increases? A) Competition. B) Carrying capacity. C) Food supply. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Competition. 24. ..... is a sample in which each individual or object in the entire population has an equal chance of being selected. A) Sample. B) Population. C) Random Sample. D) Quartile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Random Sample. 25. Land suited for agriculture is called A) Ecumene land. B) Biome land. C) Physiological land. D) Arid land. E) Arable land. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Arable land. 26. What is the average number of people living in an area called? A) Push factors. B) Population. C) Internal migration. D) Population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population density. 27. Type of growth that occurs when disease and parasites are present ..... A) J-shaped. B) Predator-prey. C) Logistic. D) Exponential. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logistic. 28. What is the correct equation for calculating population growth rate? A) Births + Deaths. B) Deaths / Births. C) Births-Deaths. D) Deaths x Births. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Births-Deaths. 29. Which of these is NOT one of the 4 Giant Rivers in China? A) The Yangtze Jiang. B) The Amur. C) The Zhu Jiang. D) The Yodo River. E) The Huang He. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Yodo River. 30. The average number of people who live in a measurable area, reached by dividing the number of inhabitants in an area by the amount of land they occupy A) Population density. B) GNP. C) GDP. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population density. 31. As of 2015, the most densely populated state in the US was New Jersey. The 2015 population was 8, 957, 907 people and the land area was 7, 354 square miles. What is the the population density to the nearest tenth? A) 1218.1 people per sq mi. B) 1500 people per sq. mi. C) 325 people per sq. mi. D) 8569 people per sq. mi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1218.1 people per sq mi. 32. If there are more energy storage molecules in an ecosystem, what can the populations do? A) Reproduce more. B) Nothing. C) Sit and chill. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reproduce more. 33. Name one of Ravenstein's laws of migration. A) Law of thermodynamics. B) Law of distance decay. C) Law of supply and demand. D) Law of gravity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Law of distance decay. 34. A town has a population of 8, 000 people, and it grows at a rate of 3% per year. Which equation represents the population after t years? A) $P(t)=8000(1.03)^t$. B) $P(t)=8000(1.03)^t-8000$. C) $P(t)=8000(0.97)^t$. D) $P(t)=8000(1.03t)$. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $P(t)=8000(1.03)^t$. 35. A ..... shows the age and gender distribution in a population. A) Population Triangle. B) Population Graph. C) Population Chart. D) Population Pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population Pyramid. 36. A city is located where two major rivers meet. Using evidence, explain why this location might have a high population. A) The rivers make the land less fertile. B) The rivers provide water, transportation, and trade opportunities. C) The rivers cause frequent droughts. D) The rivers are barriers to movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The rivers provide water, transportation, and trade opportunities. 37. Population growth and fertility rates are lowest in A) Upper-income countries. B) Upper-and middle-income countries. C) Middle-and low-income countries. D) Lower-income countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Upper-income countries. 38. Disease is an example of A) Density dependent limiting factors. B) Density independent limiting factors. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Density dependent limiting factors. 39. Choose the correct levels of Organization from lowest to highest ..... A) Population, community, ecosystem, organism. B) Organism, population, community, ecosystem. C) Organism, population, ecosystem, community. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organism, population, community, ecosystem. 40. The process by which there is an increase in the proportion of a population living in places classified as urban; the movement from rural to urban areas. A) Urban Growth. B) Population. C) Urbanisation. D) Overpopulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Urbanisation. 41. A population increases when ..... A) Individuals die. B) Individuals are born. C) Individuals emigrate. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Individuals are born. 42. What is the current population of the world? A) 8, 100, 000, 000. B) 8, 100, 000. C) 7, 200, 000. D) 7, 200, 000, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8, 100, 000, 000. 43. In a population of cows at genetic equilibrium, 1500 cows have dominant grey coat, while the remaining 500 cows have recessive white coat. If all the white coat cows were sold and the remaining cows were left to breed randomly, what is the number of white coat cows in the next generation of 1000 cows? A) 500. B) 109. C) 442. D) 250. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 109. 44. Areas close to rivers tend to be ..... A) Densely populated. B) Sparsely populated. C) Fairly populated. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Densely populated. 45. The Vikings are primarily known to be ..... A) Farmers and fishermen. B) Teachers and hunters. C) Chef and raiders. D) Scandinavians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Farmers and fishermen. 46. Populations of tulips do not compete with other organisms. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 47. Which definition best matches the term population density? A) Human beings in general. B) Number of people in a particular area. C) A measurement of people for a specific area. D) All the inhabitants of a particular area. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A measurement of people for a specific area. 48. What is the current population of Earth? A) 7.4 billion. B) 6.5 billion. C) 10 billion. D) 3.3 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7.4 billion. 49. In kelp ecosystems along the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, What is the relationship between Sea Otters, and Kelp forests. A) Sea Otters feed on kelp. B) Sea otters have no impact on kelp. C) Sea otters consume sea urchins, which feed on Kelp. D) Sea Otters consume oysters, and do not effect kelp. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sea otters consume sea urchins, which feed on Kelp. 50. What did China do to limit the growth of their population? A) One Child Policy. B) They split families up. C) They incentivized having no children. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One Child Policy. 51. What is the maximum number of individuals of a species that an environment can support without causing long-term damage to the ecosystem? A) Carrying Capacity. B) Migration. C) Population Growth Rate. D) Optimum Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carrying Capacity. 52. The process of creating offspring is called ..... ? A) Sample. B) Resource Population. C) Reproduction. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reproduction. 53. The movement of people from place to place A) Migration. B) Death rate. C) Natural increase. D) Birth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Migration. 54. The movement of individuals into an area occupied by an existing population A) Birth rate. B) Immigration. C) Death rate. D) Emigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigration. 55. If a population grows larger than the carrying capacity of the environment, which of these is most likely to happen? A) The death rate may rise. B) The birthrate may rise. C) The death rate must fall. D) The birthrate must fall. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The death rate may rise. 56. Population distribution refers to what? A) Where people tend to live in a country. B) Where people tend to avoid in a country. C) Where people tend to vacation in a country. D) Where people tend to farm in a country. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where people tend to live in a country. 57. If the resource population decreases, then the consumer population will ..... A) Increase. B) Stay the same. C) Decrease. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decrease. 58. Living or once living things in the environment A) Population. B) Biotic factors. C) Abiotic factors. D) Ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biotic factors. 59. The land that is available for growing food is called: A) Demography. B) Arable land. C) Urban sprawl. D) Desert land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arable land. 60. All members of one species in a certain area. A) Population. B) Birth Rate. C) Limiting Factors. D) Immigration. 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