This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 9 > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 27 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An ecosystem is made up of ..... A) Living things and their offspring. B) Nonliving things such as rocks and soil. C) Living things and nonliving things. D) Many types of animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Living things and nonliving things. 2. When something remains mostly the same over time it is ..... A) Uneventful. B) Potential Energy. C) Stable. D) Boring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stable. 3. Range that describes the area inhabited by a population A) Geographic Distribution. B) Population Density. C) Dispersion. D) Growth Rate. E) Age Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geographic Distribution. 4. A population of 150 individuals has an allele frequency of 0.3 for the dominant allele (B) and a frequency of 0.7 for the recessive allele (b). Use the Hardy-Weinberg equation to determine the frequency of the genotype (bb). A) 0.09. B) 0.42. C) 0.49. D) 0.21. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0.49. 5. Today, world population is growing because people live longer even though the birthrate is dropping A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. Out of a group of 30 volunteers, 11 people are chosen to participate in a survey about the number of phone calls they make each week. What is the sample in this situation? A) The 11 people selected to participate. B) The 19 people not selected to participate. C) The 30 volunteers. D) The people conducting the survey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The 11 people selected to participate. 7. An example of an ecosystem would be? A) The ants in Mrs. M's front garden. B) The students, buses, buildings, gardens, and animals around Pennichuck. C) A rocky ledge along a running brook. D) All the different trees and bushes around Pennichuck Middle School. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The students, buses, buildings, gardens, and animals around Pennichuck. 8. A U.S. senator from Maine wants to find out the opinion of the voters in his state on issues concerning education. The office of the senator passes out surveys on ten street corners in the five major cities in the state of Maine. Is this random? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 9. A part of the environment that prevents a population from growing to 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. 10. An example of stability would be ..... ? A) An increase of births and a decrease of deaths. B) An increase of deaths and a decrease of births. C) Both births and deaths are equal. D) Both births and deaths are unequal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both births and deaths are equal. 11. Define population density and distribution. A) The average number of people in a given unit area and how a population is spread over an area. B) The number of houses per square kilometre and urbanisation rates. C) Where people live on the surface of the earth. D) The number of a people in a country and where they are situated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The average number of people in a given unit area and how a population is spread over an area. 12. 7) What is the largest country in the world? A) China. B) Canada. C) The United States. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Russia. 13. When a population is stable it means ..... A) There are more births than deaths. B) There are less births than deaths. C) There are the same number as births than deaths. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There are the same number as births than deaths. 14. The countryside, less population A) Rural. B) Urban. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rural. 15. A student wants to know which type of pizza the students at his high school prefer. Which option would give a unbiased, representative sample: A) Asking all the students in the hot lunch line. B) Asking 10 random students from each homeroom. C) Asking every other student who gets off a school bus. D) Asking all the 10th graders. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asking 10 random students from each homeroom. 16. If the death rate is greater than the birth rate, the population will ..... A) Decrease. B) Increase. C) Stay the same. D) Go extinct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decrease. 17. A high birth rate, high death rate, and low natural increase rate is A) Stage 1. B) Stage 2. C) Stage 3. D) Stage 4. E) Stage 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage 1. 18. ..... means moving into a population. A) Immigration. B) Emmigration. C) Plantation. D) Repopulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immigration. 19. How many extra people are added to the world's population each year? A) 800, 000. B) 8, 000, 000. C) 70, 000, 000. D) 800, 000, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 70, 000, 000. 20. As per the 2011 Census, which state has the least density (17 personin one sq km) of population? A) Uttar Pradesh. B) Arunachal Pradesh. C) Sikkim. D) Kerla. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arunachal Pradesh. 21. In Rwanda, there are more young children than teenagers, and more teenagers than adults. This age structure indicates a population that A) Has stopped growing. B) Will double in 30 years. C) Has a steady growth rate. D) Will decrease in 30 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Will double in 30 years. 22. The study of how living things interact with each other and the environment is called ..... A) Economy. B) Ecology. C) Eco-friendly. D) Biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecology. 23. Something that controls the growth or size of a population is A) A growth factor. B) A limiting factor. C) The carrying capacity. D) The growth rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A limiting factor. 24. This occurs when the size of a population becomes larger than the carrying capacity of its ecosystem. A) Overpopulation. B) Extinction. C) Underpopulation. D) Biotic potential. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Overpopulation. 25. If a nation's Birth Rate is higher than its death rate, then ..... A) The population is shrinking. B) The population is growing. C) The population is experiencing new migration patterns. D) The country needs to be a democracy. 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