This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Geography > Population > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which statement BEST describes how limiting factors affect the organisms in an ecosystem? A) They provide what an organism needs to survive. B) They destroy resources organisms need to survive. C) They have no effect on the organisms in an ecosystem. D) They keep a population from getting too large. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They keep a population from getting too large. 2. 2) Which of the following is a continent as well as acountry? A) Russia. B) Africa. C) Australia. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Australia. 3. A group of the same species of organism living in the same place A) Hang out. B) Population. C) Pod. D) Density. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 4. Ecology is the study of the ..... of organisms with the environment. A) Number. B) Types. C) Relationships. D) Journey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relationships. 5. ..... is the entire group of objects or individuals considered for a survey. A) Sample. B) Population. C) Random Sample. D) Quartile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 6. What is the group that has dominated the Maghreb region of Africa for 10, 000 years? A) Egyptians. B) Nubians. C) Berbers. D) Eritreans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Berbers. 7. Average number of years a person is likely to live A) Life expectancy. B) Survivorship. C) Demography. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life expectancy. 8. Density, distribution, and growth rate are characteristics used to classify which one of the following? A) Populations. B) Biomes. C) Age Structure. D) Limiting Factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Populations. 9. All of the populations living in an area is called a ..... A) Community. B) Population. C) Ecosystem. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Community. 10. What is urbanization? 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 rural villages to cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The movement of people from rural villages to cities. 11. What is the condition where the number of individuals in a population exceeds the carrying capacity of the environment, leading to resource depletion, environmental degradation, and social problems? A) Overpopulation. B) Population Explosion. C) Underpopulation. D) Population Growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Overpopulation. 12. A part of the environment that prevents a population from growing too large is a/n ..... A) Abiotic factor. B) Biotic factor. C) Limiting factor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limiting factor. 13. The non-living parts of an organism's environment are called ..... A) Biotic factors. B) Community. C) Habitat. D) Abiotic factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abiotic factors. 14. The parts of Earth and the surrounding atmosphere where there is life. A) Population. B) Biosphere. C) Community. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biosphere. 15. Population is ..... ? A) All the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country. B) A group of people assembled for religious worship. C) An extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property. D) Modern popular culture transmitted via the mass media and aimed particularly at younger people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country. 16. Is the movement of individuals into an area A) Moving. B) Immigration. C) Emigration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigration. 17. A musician wanted to see what people who bought his last album thought about the songs. Which choice best represents a population? A) Every person who bought the album. B) A selection of 3, 701 people who bought the album. C) Every person from age 5-12 who bought the album. D) A selection of people who didn't want to buy the album. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Every person who bought the album. 18. You moved away from Chico. This is an example of A) Immigration. B) Migration. C) Geographic range. D) Emigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emigration. 19. A population of deer lives in Canada. Over 50 years, the size of the deer population decreased. What best explains the decrease in the size of the deer population? A) A lot of deer died and no deer were born. B) Fewer deer were born than died. C) The deer population is always decreasing because deer are always being eaten. D) More deer were born than died. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fewer deer were born than died. 20. When a deer in a population dies from disease ..... A) Emigration. B) Immigration. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emigration. 21. Following World War II, the amount of births increased, and about 4.24 million babies a year were born from 1946 to 1964. What is this an example of? A) Boserup theory. B) Baby bust. C) Replacement rate. D) Baby boom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baby boom. 22. Organism being hunt for consumption A) Competition. B) Predator. C) Prey. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prey. 23. A larger resource population provides more energy storage molecules to its consumer population, causing ..... to increase. A) Deaths. B) Births. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Births. 24. Which equation matches the following:Initial value = 120Decay Rate = 50% A) $A(t)=120(1.5)^t$. B) $A(t)=120e^{0.5t}$. C) $A(t)=120(0.5)^t$. D) $A(t)=120(2)^t$. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $A(t)=120(0.5)^t$. 25. Using the Hardy-Weinberg Principle, which expression represents the frequency of the carrier genotype? A) 2pq. B) Q$^{2}$. C) P$^{2}$. D) Pq. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2pq. 26. Which limiting factor would increase due to the number of individuals in a population? A) Natural disaster. B) Births. C) Unusual weather. D) Disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disease. 27. Sea otters live in the ocean. Which of the following is NOT likely to be a limiting factor on the sea otter population? A) Competition. B) Disease. C) Drought. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drought. 28. A fox eats a squirrel. The population of squirrels has ..... A) Increased. B) Decreased. C) Stayed the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decreased. 29. Which statement provides the best evidence to support the claim that Burmese pythons have an impact on the environment? A) Burmese pythons have no natural predators in the Everglades. B) Burmese python numbers increased, and mammal populations decreased. C) Burmese pythons were first introduced to Florida as pets. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Burmese python numbers increased, and mammal populations decreased. 30. Which of the following is NOT an important river in the Middle East? A) Euphrates River. B) Jordan River. C) Nile RIver. D) Tigris River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nile RIver. 31. What does a limiting factor do? A) Provides geographical boundaries for migration. B) Stops a population from growing large. C) Helps organisms adapt to abiotic factors. D) Makes a population grow large. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stops a population from growing large. 32. The carrying capacity of an environment for a particular species at a particular time is determined by the A) Reproductivepotential of the species. B) Number of individualsin the species. C) Supply of the mostlimited resources. D) Distribution of thepopulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Supply of the mostlimited resources. 33. Priya is planning a trip and wants to visit an urban area. Which of the following should she choose? A) A desert in Northern Africa. B) New York City. C) A small farming village. D) A remote mountain cabin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) New York City. 34. What term is used to describe the maximum population size an environment can support? A) Biotic potential. B) Population threshold. C) Environmental limit. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carrying capacity. 35. What is the term for the number of males and females of each age in a population? A) Geographic range. B) Population density. C) Age structure. D) Growth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Age structure. 36. A sample should be A) Representative of people who volunteer. B) Representative of only middle school students only. C) Representative of the population. D) Everyone in the population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Representative of the population. 37. Which of the following is NOT a requirement for maintaining the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium? A) An increasing mutation rate. B) Random mating. C) Large population size. D) No migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An increasing mutation rate. 38. Situation in a population in which birth rate equals death rate A) Demographic transition. B) Zero population growth (ZPG). C) Demography. D) Age structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zero population growth (ZPG). 39. Limiting factor that affects all populations in similar ways, regardless of the population density A) Demographic transition. B) Density-independent factor. C) Density dependent factor. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Density-independent factor. 40. The patterns of where high, low, or moderate numbers of people live. A) Location. B) Population Distribution. C) Manufactured Goods. D) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population Distribution. 41. What would the population pyramid of a college town look like? A) A high number of children under ten. B) Fewer males and female in the age range of 18-25. C) A large number of males and females in the age range of 18-25. D) Fewer men than women in the age range of 15-40. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A large number of males and females in the age range of 18-25. 42. What decade did the Oil Crisis occur? A) 1770s. B) 1990s. C) 1970s. D) 1940s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1970s. 43. Population density is ..... A) Average number of people in an area. B) Total population of a country. C) Number of adults per 1000 people. D) Number of people who live in cities divided by the number in rural areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Average number of people in an area. 44. ..... the number of individuals in a given area A) Dispersion. B) Population density. C) Population size. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population density. 45. ..... is the maximum population that a given area can support. A) Population growth. B) Carrying capacity. C) Limiting factor. D) Immigration rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carrying capacity. 46. What are the challenges of rapid population growth? A) Increased access to resources. B) Decreased food production. C) Decreased urbanization. D) Decreased population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decreased food production. 47. The ..... is the average number of children each parent must have in order to replace themselves in the population A) Life expectancy. B) Migration level. C) Fertility rate. D) Replacement level. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Replacement level. 48. The amount of deaths that occur within a certain time frame represents the ..... A) Death rate. B) Immigration. C) Emigration. D) Birth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Death rate. 49. Competition is a ..... interaction. A) Negative. B) Positive. C) Fun. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative. 50. In a country that has a decreasing population ..... A) The birth rate is higher than the death rate. B) The death rate is higher than the birth rate. C) The birth rate equals the death rate. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The death rate is higher than the birth rate. 51. A toy store owner tracking how much kids spend each month on toys. Which choice best represents a population? A) All of the kids who buy toys. B) 227 rich kids. C) 228 boys age 7-15. D) 235 kids from age 10 to 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of the kids who buy toys. 52. The number of individuals moving into a population A) Population. B) Emigration. C) Dispersion. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immigration. 53. Who set up the Indian Forest Service in India? A) Dietrich Brandis. B) Johan Marter. C) Marks Fernandies. D) Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dietrich Brandis. 54. Which of the following will help a population increase? A) Poaching. B) Pollution. C) Limiting factors. D) Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immigration. 55. If a population grows larger than its environmental carrying capacity, then A) Death rate may rise. B) Death rate may fall significantly. C) Birth rate may rise significantly. D) Immigration rate may increase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Death rate may rise. 56. Grace and Anika are studying geography. What does migration mean? A) The number of births in a country. B) The percentage of people living in cities. C) A country's population growth. D) The movement of people from one place to another. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The movement of people from one place to another. 57. Because mountains block winds coming from the oceans, much of the interior of Southwest Asia is: A) Grassland. B) Desert. C) Fertile farmland. D) Full of lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desert. 58. There are 150 Saguaro cactus plants per square kilometer in a 10-square-kilometer area of Arizona desert. To which population characteristic does this information refer? A) Geographic range. B) Population density. C) Age structure. D) Growth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population density. 59. Mortality rate ..... A) "Death Rate". B) "Population Rate". C) "Fertility Rate". D) "Birth Rate". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Death Rate". 60. A population pyramid that shows negative or declining growth will have what type of shape? A) A narrower middle and wide bottom. B) Almost equal at middle and bottom. C) Narrower at bottom than middle. D) None of the above. 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