This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 9 > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 2 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To catch turtles in a bay, mark them, and let them go. Later, a sample is captured and marked and unmarked turtles are counted. Using math, an estimate of the total population is made. A) Direct Observation. B) Indirect Observation. C) Sampling. D) Mark-and-recapture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mark-and-recapture. 2. Which of the following will increase the size of a population? A) Emigration and births. B) Immigration and deaths. C) Immigration and births. D) Emigration and deaths. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Immigration and births. 3. What causes a population size to decrease? A) More births than deaths. B) Fewer births than deaths. C) The number of births and the number of deaths is equal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fewer births than deaths. 4. What happens during logistic growth? A) The population growth rate slows or stops after a period of exponential growth. B) The population remains constant. C) The population grows exponentially without stopping. D) The population decreases rapidly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The population growth rate slows or stops after a period of exponential growth. 5. The number of years it takes for a population to double in size A) Birth rate time. B) Death rate time. C) Doubling time. D) Double migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Doubling time. 6. On ten acres of native forest there are eight white-tailed deer, seven coyotes, 45 armadillos, and 231 loblolly pine trees. Which population has the highest density? A) White-tailed deer. B) Coyotes. C) Armadillos. D) Loblolly pine trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loblolly pine trees. 7. Biotic can be defined as A) The living parts of an environment. B) Non-living parts of an environment. C) Rocks and water. D) Snakes and water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The living parts of an environment. 8. The variation of population density over a specified area. A) Population Distribution. B) Population Density. C) Overpopulation. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population Distribution. 9. An example of a DEVELOPING country: A) Canada. B) America. C) Mexico. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mexico. 10. A fruit fly that has a short life span and produces many offspring can be classified into which reproductive strategy? A) R-strategist. B) K-strategist. C) A carrying-capacity strategist. D) A logistic strategist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) R-strategist. 11. Due to climate and geography, most people in SE Asia live A) Close to rivers and coastlines. B) Near the Himalayan Mountains. C) Throughout China's deserts. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Close to rivers and coastlines. 12. All the alligators in a swamp are an example of a(n) ..... A) Organism. B) Community. C) Population. D) Group. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 13. The size of a population compared to the amount of space available is called the ..... A) Biotic potential. B) Population density. C) Limiting factor. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population density. 14. What are the nonliving parts of the ecosystem? This includes temperature, water, sunlight, air, and soil. A) Biotic factors. B) Communities. C) Abiotic factors. D) Microorganisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abiotic factors. 15. If a population is INCREASING this means ..... A) There are more births than deaths. B) There are less births than deaths. C) There are the same amount of births and deaths. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There are more births than deaths. 16. The population growth rate of-0.425 means that a population is A) Increasing. B) Decreasing. C) Neither increasing or decreasing. D) Sucky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decreasing. 17. How does a larger consumer population impact its resource population? A) It will need fewer energy storage molecules, leading to fewer deaths in the resource population. B) It will need more energy storage molecules, causing more deaths in the resource population. C) It doesn't affect the resource population. D) It leads to a larger resource population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It will need more energy storage molecules, causing more deaths in the resource population. 18. Which of the following is NOT shown in a population pyramid? A) Females in the population. B) Males in the population. C) Birth and death rates. D) Age distribution of the population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birth and death rates. 19. About how many people on are the planet today? A) 1 Billion. B) 9 Billion. C) 6.2 Billion. D) 7.8 Billion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7.8 Billion. 20. North Fremont's population growth rate is 5%. What is the doubling time for North Fremont? A) 1.4 years. B) 14 years. C) 140 years. D) 35 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14 years. 21. Living things within an ecosystem are called ..... factors. A) Abiotic. B) Non-living. C) Biotic. D) Organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biotic. 22. Which population is decreasing? A) Births greater than deaths. B) Deaths greater than births. C) The one Snoop Dogg's in. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deaths greater than births. 23. This keeps a population's size below its full potential ..... A) Limiting factor. B) Carrying capacity. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting factor. 24. What is the best definition of an organism? A) Many individuals of the same species living in the same area. B) All of the living and nonliving things in a particular area. C) An individual plant, animal, fungus, or single-celled life form. D) A creature that is large enough to see without using a microscope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An individual plant, animal, fungus, or single-celled life form. 25. Type of growth that occurs when there are unlimited resources? A) Predator-prey cycle. B) Logistic. C) Exponential. D) None of the above. 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