This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Geography > Population > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A school randomly chose ten English teachers and asked them which type of juice their students would prefer. Which reason best shows why this sample is biased? A) The sample didn't include students. B) The sample is too small. C) The sample can only be accurate if each teacher is included in the sample. D) English teachers don't drink juice!. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The sample didn't include students. 2. Due to severe overcrowding in an Asian village, many children do not survive to reach adulthood. A) Density-Dependent:Disease. B) Density-Independent:Disease. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Density-Dependent:Disease. 3. Population and Migration are the same terms. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 4. Fish on a coral reef stake out their territory and chase away any younger fish that try to live there. A) Density-Dependent. B) Density-Independent. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Density-Dependent. 5. American bison, which are large grazing mammals, are most often found clumped in small groups. What might you infer about the spatial distribution of American bison? A) A clumped group can graze a larger area. B) A clumped group provides better protection from predators. C) A clumped group attracts more prey. D) A clumped group takes better advantage of water resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A clumped group provides better protection from predators. 6. The number of babies out of 1, 000 that die during their first year of life is called A) Infant mortality. B) Growth rate. C) Demography. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infant mortality. 7. A family left Australia to live in Venice, Italy. This is an example of A) Immigration. B) Migration. C) Emigration. D) Geographic range. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Migration. 8. The study of the characteristics and changes in the size and structure of human populations. A) Demography. B) Urbanisation. C) People Study. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Demography. 9. The average number of children a woman will have during her reproductive years. A) Population growth. B) Fertility Rate. C) Birth Decline. D) Birth Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fertility Rate. 10. If owls are eating mice and getting energy storage molecules from the mice, which is the resource population? A) Owls. B) Mice. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mice. 11. What would be the sample 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: C) The shoppers who were asked their preferences. 12. The most populous country in the world A) China. B) US. C) India. D) Brazil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) China. 13. Which of the following is not part of the biosphere? A) The Atlantic Ocean. B) The moon. C) The Kalahari Desert. D) The polar ice caps. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The moon. 14. The lunch program at Saxe is being revised to align with new nutritional standards. Mrs. Prinz's first period class was surveyed about their school lunch. Does this represent the population or a sample? A) Population. B) Sample. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sample. 15. A small farming community in Georgia covers 20 square kilometers. There are 1000 individuals who live on the farms. What is the population density of this community? A) .05. B) 50. C) 5. D) .02. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 50. 16. This affects population growth based on the population size/density ..... A) Density Independent Limiting Factors. B) Density Dependent Limiting Factors. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Density Dependent Limiting Factors. 17. How have people in desert regions adapted to their environment? A) By building wooden houses. B) By planting rainforests. C) By wearing heavy wool clothing. D) By using irrigation to grow crops. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By using irrigation to grow crops. 18. Change in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates A) Density-dependent factor. B) Emigration. C) Demography. D) Demographic transition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Demographic transition. 19. A living or once-living organisms in an ecosystem is a A) Biotic factor. B) Community. C) Population. D) Abiotic factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic factor. 20. Number of Deaths 10Number of Births 15Immigration 3Emigration 4Does the population increase or decrease? A) Increase. B) Decrease. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increase. 21. The continent with the largest population. A) Europe. B) China. C) Africa. D) USA. E) Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Asia. 22. The amount of people that live in a certain area, usually square miles. A) Population Density. B) Rural. C) Urban. D) Population Distribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population Density. 23. There are approximately 690 grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park giving them a population density of about .1987 grizzlies per square mile. What is the area of the park to the nearest whole number? A) 4337 mi$^{2}$. B) 731 mi$^{2}$. C) 3473 mi$^{2}$. D) 137 mi$^{2}$. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3473 mi$^{2}$. 24. A species whose population is close to dying out: A) Extinct. B) Endangered. C) Threatened. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Endangered. 25. A density-independent factor happens: A) Depending on the size of the population. B) If there are no resources left in a habitat. C) Depending on the number of predators hunting prey. D) Regardless of the size of the population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regardless of the size of the population. 26. A bagel shop takes a survey to find the approximate percentage of its customers who prefer the new shop hours. What is the population of this survey? A) All of the bagel shop's customers. B) All bagels sold by the bagel shop. C) The customers who were surveyed. D) All people in the same town as the bagel shop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of the bagel shop's customers. 27. Which is not the prescribed categories of forests under the 1878 Forest Act A) Reserved forests. B) Village forests. C) Urban Forest. D) Protected forests. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Urban Forest. 28. The average number of people living on a square mile or square kilometer of land A) Population distribution. B) Population density. C) Population pyramid. D) Population doubling time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population density. 29. Population density can be best described as: A) The amount of available nutrients in an ecosystem. B) The amount of individuals in a given space. C) The amount of births that occur in a population. D) The amount of deaths that occur in a population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The amount of individuals in a given space. 30. True or False:The less energy storage molecules available to a population, the more the organisms in that population can reproduce. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 31. Which country below is experiencing a natural decrease of its population. A) Japan. B) India. C) Brazil. D) Vietnam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Japan. 32. Number of organisms per certain area A) Population density. B) Total population. C) Limiting factor. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population density. 33. Growth pattern in which a population's growth slows and then stops following a period of exponential growth A) Logistical growth. B) Exponential growth. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logistical growth. 34. How do ecologists estimate the size of a large population? A) By using a sampling method. B) By counting every individual. C) By observing their behavior. D) By measuring the area they occupy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By using a sampling method. 35. What type of interaction occurs when beech and maple trees are in the same forest? A) Cooperation. B) Competition. C) Cohabitance. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Competition. 36. What can cause a population to grow exponentially? A) Frequent natural disasters. B) Abundant space and food, and protection from predators and disease. C) Increased predation. D) Limited space and food. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abundant space and food, and protection from predators and disease. 37. A flowering plant has seeds that are carried by the wind. Infer the most likely dispersion pattern of the plants that grow from these seeds. A) Uniform. B) Clumped groups. C) Random. D) Spatial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Random. 38. The number of years it takes Plano's population to go from 10, 000 to 20, 000 is known as ..... A) Doubling Time. B) Crude Birth Rate. C) Natural Increase Rate. D) Crude Death Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Doubling Time. 39. If you divide the population of a country by its arable land area what statistic do you get? A) Seriously why am I dividing in Social studies?. B) Percentage point. C) Physiologic population density. D) Arithmetic population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Physiologic population density. 40. One SINGLE living thing is A) A community. B) An organism. C) An ecosystem. D) A population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An organism. 41. VOCAB:describes the relative numbers of organisms of each age within a population and is often represented by a graph A) Age structure diagram. B) Fertility rate. C) Demographic transition. D) Population growth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Age structure diagram. 42. What is the rate at which the population of a species increases or decreases over time, taking into account births, deaths, immigration, and emigration? A) MEDC. B) Population Growth Rate. C) Resources. D) LED. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population Growth Rate. 43. Spatial distribution of individual within the population A) Dispersion. B) Growth Rate. C) Geographic Distribution. D) Population Density. E) Age Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dispersion. 44. Which of the following is a proven way to lower birth rates in a country? A) Increase education of women. B) Increase marriage rates. C) Lower taxes. D) Lower food prices. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increase education of women. 45. A population is described as A) All living and non-living things in an ecosystem. B) All of the same species living in an area. C) All living things in an area. D) All the non-living factors of an ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All of the same species living in an area. 46. A(n) ..... enters the country while a(n) ..... exits the country. A) Immigrant, emigrant. B) Emigrant, immigrant. C) Refugee, internally displaced person. D) Counter migration, step migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immigrant, emigrant. 47. Food, Water, Space and Weather are all examples of a ..... in an environment. A) Population. B) Limiting factor. C) Carrying capacity. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limiting factor. 48. A mayor wanted to see if the people in his town thought he was doing a good job. Which choice best represents a sample? A) 242 voters. B) 1, 000 unemployed voters. C) The residents of the town. D) The mayor's family. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 242 voters. 49. Abiotic factors are nonliving things in an ecosystem. Select the list that only contains abiotic factors. A) Variety of food sources, annual precipitation, and number of decomposers. B) The density of predators, water depth, types of parasites. C) Precipitation amount, number of prey species, plant types. D) Water temperature, amount of sunlight, soil type. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water temperature, amount of sunlight, soil type. 50. Occurs when a population's growth slows A) Growth Rate. B) Exponential Growth. C) Logistic Growth. D) Carrying Capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logistic Growth. 51. True or False:all samples lead to a good prediction about an entire population. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 52. Which of the following is true about populations? A) Populations always increase. B) Human populations have doubled in size. C) Human populations have stayed about the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human populations have doubled in size. 53. All the living and nonliving things that interact in a particular area make up a(n) A) Population. B) Ecosystem. C) Community. D) Biome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem. 54. Which factor is MOST LIKLEY to have had the greatest impact on human settlement patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa? A) Proximity to the region's numerous coal mines. B) Urbanization resulting from the growth of the oil industry in the region. C) Political boundaries created during European colonization. D) Proximity to water sources needed for subsistence farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proximity to water sources needed for subsistence farming. 55. When a population has unlimited resources, and it continues to grow to its FULL LIVING POTENTIAL, it is called A) Peak. B) Biotic potential. C) Resource controlled limit. D) Top shelf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biotic potential. 56. What TWO things are needed to calculate population density? A) Population and People. B) Area of Land and Population. C) People and Death Rate. D) Birth Rate and Death Rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Area of Land and Population. 57. What is the calculation of the number of deaths in a population each year? A) Death rate. B) Birth rate. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Death rate. 58. A group of organisms that live in an area at one time, as well as the climate, soil, water, and other nonliving parts of the environment. A) Ecosystem. B) Population. C) Community. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecosystem. 59. What did the Vikings influence in countries? A) Currency. B) Culture. C) Government. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Culture. 60. What is Sex Ratio? A) Number of females per 100 males in the population. B) Number of females in the population. C) Number of males per 1000 females in the population. D) Number of females per 1000 males in the population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Number of females per 1000 males in the population. ← 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 8Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books