This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Geography > Population > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The city, more population A) Rural. B) Urban. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urban. 2. [Extra Credit] The 25 cities with the highest population have a combined population of ..... A) 427. B) 430. C) 428. D) 429. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 427. 3. Identify the Sample:A restaurant wants to know if customers buy dessert when they eat out. As people leave the restaurant one evening, 20 people are surveyed at random. Eight people say they usually order dessert when they eat out. The restaurant concluded that most customers do not order dessert. A) 20 customers. B) All customers. C) 8 customers. D) Dessert. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 20 customers. 4. A species that is at risk because of sharp decrease in population: A) Extinct. B) Endangered. C) Threatened. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Threatened. 5. All of the living and non-living factors in an area are a(n) A) Ecosystem. B) Habitat. C) Biome. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem. 6. How many books have each of my friends read this year? A) STATISTICAL. B) NONSTATISTICAL. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) STATISTICAL. 7. What is a reason why a refugee would seek asylum? A) War breaks out in their homeland. B) They are a guest worker. C) They need to find better job opportunities. D) To meet up with long distance family. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) War breaks out in their homeland. 8. What would be the population in this example?Surveyors in a mall choose shoppers to ask about products they prefer. A) The surveyors. B) All shoppers in the mall. C) The shoppers who were asked their preferences. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All shoppers in the mall. 9. You want to know how many students catch the bus to go home. You go to the bus stop and ask students how they go home from school. Is this an effective sample? A) YES. B) NO. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO. 10. What is one way people have adapted to living in very cold climates? A) Building houses on stilts. B) Wearing lightweight clothing. C) Using sleds and snowmobiles for transportation. D) Growing tropical crops. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using sleds and snowmobiles for transportation. 11. Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as ..... A) Factorization. B) A limiting factor. C) A limiting measure. D) Materialization of precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A limiting factor. 12. Symbiosis of benefit to both symbiotes A) Ismismism. B) Commensalism. C) Mutualism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mutualism. 13. Percentage of the population (or number of people of each gender) at each age level in a population. A) Age Structure. B) Demographics. C) Birth Rate. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Age Structure. 14. 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. 15. What organism is the main focus of our Amplify unit question? A) Moon Jellies. B) Orca Whales. C) Marine biologists. D) Giant Kelp. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moon Jellies. 16. Which organism is most responsible for the decrease in the great white shark population? A) Oysters. B) Humans. C) Rays. D) Scallops. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humans. 17. What large geographic feature dominates much of northern Africa? A) Rain forest. B) Desert. C) Lowlands. D) Savanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desert. 18. The non-living parts of an ecosystem are called ..... A) Abiotic factors. B) Biotic factors. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abiotic factors. 19. Why do organisms need to release energy from energy storage molecules? A) To hibernate. B) To migrate. C) To reproduce. D) To adapt to their environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To reproduce. 20. How does climate influence where people choose to live? A) People avoid areas with fertile soil. B) People often settle in regions with mild climates. C) People prefer to live in areas with extreme weather. D) People only live in deserts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People often settle in regions with mild climates. 21. A large herd of birds hanging out close together to evade predators is a ..... interaction. A) Negative. B) Positive. C) Fun. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive. 22. What is the definition of geographic range? A) The movement of individuals into an area. B) The largest number of individuals that an environment can support. C) The area inhabited by a population. D) The number of individuals per unit area. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The area inhabited by a population. 23. What is one way humans can negatively alter an environment? A) Replacing native organisms after hunting. B) Introducing invasive species. C) Removing toxic waste. D) Planting trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Introducing invasive species. 24. Field mice eat corn. Which would most likely happen if the field mouse population grew? A) There would be more corn to feed the field mice. B) There would be less corn due to the mice eating it. C) The habitat would get overpopulated because the mice woudl eat too much. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There would be less corn due to the mice eating it. 25. When calculating population growth rates, we divide by what? A) Births. B) Carrying capacity. C) Deaths. D) Population size. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population size. 26. The variations in population that occur across a country, a continent, or the world A) Population pyramid. B) Population doubling time. C) Population density. D) Population distribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population distribution. 27. Which of the following is a density-independent factor? A) Disease. B) Fires. C) Predation. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fires. 28. The rate at which the number of individuals in a population increases in a given time period A) Expansion Rate. B) Increase Rate. C) Density Rate. D) Growth Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Growth Rate. 29. 6) Which country is located in two continents? A) Russia. B) Australia. C) China. D) The United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Russia. 30. How can human activities affect populations? A) By providing unlimited resources. B) By stabilizing population growth. C) By increasing the carrying capacity. D) By destroying populations through activities like clear-cutting forests. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By destroying populations through activities like clear-cutting forests. 31. The movement of individuals away from a population A) Population density. B) Dispersion. C) Emigration. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emigration. 32. Which of the following populations is most likely to go extinct? A) A very small population in an unstable environment. B) A moderate-sized population of r strategists. C) A large population with lots of genetic variability. D) All would be equally likely to go extinct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A very small population in an unstable environment. 33. Food shortages, natural disasters, disease, and ..... can reduce population size. A) Predation. B) Emigration. C) Migration. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predation. 34. True or False. A population never reaches biotic potential because no ecosystem has an unlimited supply of resources. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 35. A previously rapidly growing population of green tree frogs in the city park has suddenly leveled off, and is presently neither increasing or decreasing in numbers. You can probably infer that the tree frog population has reached its ..... A) Nap Time. B) Limiting Factor. C) Population Total. D) Carrying Capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carrying Capacity. 36. Why has the world population dramatically increased? A) Better medicine. B) Better sanitation. C) Better technology. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 37. People living in areas with frequent hurricanes have developed certain strategies. Using reasoning, which adaptation is most effective? A) Building homes with strong foundations and storm shutters. B) Planting only small flowers. C) Avoiding all outdoor activities. D) Using only wooden roofs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Building homes with strong foundations and storm shutters. 38. How would you describe the population along the Ganges River? A) Densely populated. B) Sparsely populated. C) Evenly spread out. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Densely populated. 39. What type of factor has an increasing impact as the population size increases? A) Cohort effect. B) Density-dependent. C) Density-independent. D) Survivorship factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Density-dependent. 40. A gene pool consists of ..... A) All the alleles selected by natural selection. B) All the alleles present in a population. C) The entire genome of a sexually reproducing organism. D) The frequencies of the alleles for a gene locus within a population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All the alleles present in a population. 41. Which is not an example of a model? A) A food web of organisms. B) The tokens we used for atoms. C) The 3 population simulation. D) All of these are models. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these are models. 42. When organisms move into a certain population they are ..... A) Sampling. B) Immigrating. C) Habitating. D) Emigrating. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigrating. 43. 5) Which continent has the largest population? A) North America. B) Africa. C) Asia. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asia. 44. Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate A) Logistic growth. B) Exponential growth. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exponential growth. 45. If 98 out of 200 individuals in a population express the recessive phenotype, what percent of the population would you predict would be heterozygous? A) 42%. B) 49%. C) 30%. D) 70%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 42%. 46. Factors that affect a population depending on its size-these include food, predation, parasitism, and disease A) Density-Dependent factor. B) Density-Independent factors. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Density-Dependent factor. 47. Select examples of biotic factors ..... A) Temperature. B) Soil. C) Living space. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Predation. 48. Cities in Southwest Asia that are located in the desert with little access to water are densely populated. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 49. An organism's? is defined as the environment in which it lives. A) Social Structure. B) Ecology. C) Habitat. D) Niche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Habitat. 50. Populations are where animals live. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 51. To assess a population's growth rate, an ecologist must know how many individuals are born, how many died, and how many move away in a given period of time. What else must an ecologist know? A) How many individuals are young or old. B) How many individuals find mates. C) How many individuals carry communicable diseases. D) How many individuals move in from somewhere else. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How many individuals move in from somewhere else. 52. What is a consumer population? A) A population that eats organisms from another population. B) A population that gets eaten by organisms in another population. C) A group of people who like to go shopping. D) None of these answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A population that eats organisms from another population. 53. Which will reduce competition within a species' population? A) Fewer resources. B) Higher population density. C) Fewer individuals. D) Higher birthrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fewer individuals. 54. If there are more births than deaths in a given time, then the size of the population will ..... A) Decrease. B) Be stable. C) Increase. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increase. 55. What is a scientific word that refers to new organisms being made? A) Subsist. B) Renovate. C) Expire. D) Reproduce. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reproduce. 56. A homeowner divides their backyard into 5 sections, and randomly removes soil from sections. A) Biased. B) Unbiased. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unbiased. 57. 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 carrier? A) 0.48. B) 0.32. C) 0.02. D) 0.20. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0.02. 58. An increase in population numbers until a point where the environment reaches the maximum number of organisms that can be supported is ..... A) Exponential population growth. B) Logistic population growth. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logistic population growth. 59. What is the capital of China? A) Guangzhou. B) Nanjing. C) Beijing. D) Taipei. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beijing. 60. One way that immigration can negatively impact a host country is ..... A) Requiring support from government services, like welfare. B) Providing a larger workforce and fueling the economy. C) "Brain drain" (losing people with higher education). D) Fueling the economy and supporting the housing market. 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