This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 9 > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 26 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Increase or decrease in size depending on how many individuals are added to it or removed from it A) Geographic Distribution. B) Population Density. C) Dispersion. D) Growth Rate. E) Age Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Growth Rate. 2. What determines whether the size of a population stays the same, increases, or decreases over time? A) Geographic range. B) Population density. C) Growth rate. D) Age structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Growth rate. 3. An organism gets food, water, shelter, and other things it needs to live, grow, and reproduce from its A) Population. B) Habitat. C) Abiotic factors. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Habitat. 4. Why do we randomly select our samples? A) For control. B) Reduce bias. C) So we don't get the same answers from everyone. D) To eliminate confounding results. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reduce bias. 5. Which definition best matches the term population? A) A measurement of people for a specific area. B) All the inhabitants of a particular area. C) Human beings in general. D) The increase in the number of people in a particular area. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All the inhabitants of a particular area. 6. Animals move to ..... crowded places. A) More. B) Less. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less. 7. A population pyramid is grouped by which two factors? A) Age, race. B) Race, gender. C) Age, gender. D) Race, literacy rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Age, gender. 8. What organism is the main focus of our Amplify unit story? A) Honeybees. B) Moon Jellies. C) Weebugs. D) Furbils. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moon Jellies. 9. What has NOT led to the large population of the world? A) Increases in food production. B) Discoveries in medical science. C) Improvements in sanitation. D) Decreases in sanitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decreases in sanitation. 10. If a country has a population of 4 million in 2000, 8 million in 2010, and 16 million in 2020, then what is the doubling time for that country's population? A) 5 years. B) 10 years. C) 15 years. D) 20 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10 years. 11. The term for the role an organism has in the community. A) Niche. B) Habitat. C) Tolerances. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Niche. 12. Living things such as plants, animals and bacteria are ..... ? A) Populations. B) Organisms. C) Ecosystems. D) Resource Populations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organisms. 13. Why was China able to build a network of highways in only a few years, when the United States took nearly 40 years? A) Americans are generally unmotivated. B) The size of their population allows them to get more work done faster. C) They have superior technology which allows them to work faster. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The size of their population allows them to get more work done faster. 14. What is a resource 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 gets things for others. D) None of these answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A population that gets eaten by organisms in another population. 15. Speed at which a population grows A) Population density. B) Population growth rate. C) Population distribution. D) Population size. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population growth rate. 16. Scientific study of human populations A) Geography. B) Demography. C) Biology. D) Theology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Demography. 17. What measures the number of deaths a country has in a year? A) Crude Birth Rate. B) Crude Death Rate. C) Natural Increase Rate. D) Doubling Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crude Death Rate. 18. The maximum # of individuals that an environment can support and sustain is known as the populations' ..... A) Limiting growth. B) Carrying capacity. C) Death rate. D) Migration pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carrying capacity. 19. The seaweed, shells, sand, fish, and sharks in the ocean are part of a ..... A) Population. B) Community. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Community. 20. What was the sex ratio of India in the year 2001? A) 900 women per thousand males. B) 933 women per thousand males. C) 950 women per thousand males. D) 833 women per thousand males. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 933 women per thousand males. 21. A country with a birth rate of 11 and death rate of 13 would benefit from A) Pro-natalist policies. B) Anti-natalist policies. C) Increased spending on education. D) Decreased spending on health care. E) Restrictive immigration policies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pro-natalist policies. 22. Under many Japanese cities they have built shopping centers filled with shops and restaurants. In Osaka, even the National Museum of Art is underground! What type of construction is this? A) Earthquake resistant. B) Skyscraper. C) Subterranean. D) Terracing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subterranean. 23. If the death rate of a population is greater than the birthrate, the population decreases. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. During a middle school baseball game, every spectator placed his or her ticket stub into a container. After the game, the coach chose eight people to march in the sportsmanship parade. What is the sample in this situation? A) The coach. B) The ticket stubs. C) The eight people to march in the sportsmanship parade. D) The baseball game spectators. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The eight people to march in the sportsmanship parade. 25. A population of mice lives in the northeastern United States. Over the past 40 years, the size of the mouse population decreased. What best explains the decrease in the size of the mouse population? A) Fewer mice were born than died. B) A lot of mice died and no new mice were born. C) More mice were born than died. D) The mouse populations is always decreasing because mice are always being eaten. 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