This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 9 > Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 28 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A lack of resources such as food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space is often called ..... A) Limiting factors. B) Wet. C) Messy. D) Found in rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limiting factors. 2. Country with the fastest growing population. A) France. B) Niger. C) Thailand. D) Australia. E) Brazil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Niger. 3. True or False? In the experiment of fermentation of yeast and sugar, the carbon dioxide gas was produced by the yeast (a fungus) metabolizing (eating) sugar which produced carbon dioxide gas and ethanol as waste products. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Name the Act which was enacted to protect the forests A) The Indian Forest Act, 1847. B) The Indian Forest Act, 1850. C) The Indian Forest Act, 1875. D) The Indian Forest Act, 1865. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Indian Forest Act, 1865. 5. If there are fewer births than deaths, then the size of the population will ..... A) Increase. B) Decrease. C) Be stable. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decrease. 6. The average age that a person in a given population can expect to live to is called ..... ? A) Life Expectancy. B) Age Limit. C) Potential Growth Capstone. D) Ideal Age Anticipation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life Expectancy. 7. What is a drought? A) When there is too much rain. B) A lack of rain or precipitation in an area. C) An abundance of water from rainfall. D) The name of a marine population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A lack of rain or precipitation in an area. 8. Anything that limits the growth of a population is? A) Population Density. B) Limiting Factors. C) Carrying Capacity. D) Population Growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limiting Factors. 9. The number of organisms in a population that die in a year. A) Birth Rate. B) Death Rate. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Death Rate. 10. Which term refers to all LIFE on Earth? A) Geosphere. B) Biosphere. C) Hydrosphere. D) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biosphere. 11. In the last 25 years A) Women have an average of 8 children. B) Fertility rates in low-and middle-income countries are higher. C) Global fertility rates have fallen. D) Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Pacific have doubled their fertility rates. E) Fertility rates in most high-income countries have risen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Global fertility rates have fallen. 12. A group of the same organisms living in the same area is called a/an ..... A) Organism. B) Cell. C) Community. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population. 13. What is the vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. A) Llanos. B) Guiana Highlands. C) Pantanal. D) Pampas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Llanos. 14. Density independent (DI) limiting factors are things that impact every population the same, regardless of size. Which of the following is NOT a density independent limiting factor? A) Competition. B) Higher than normal temperature. C) A hurricane. D) Drought. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Competition. 15. To count the population in a small area, then multiply to find the number in a large area A) Direct observation. B) Indirect observation. C) Sampling. D) Mark and recapture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sampling. 16. Identify the area of the world that is sparsely populated. A) Western Europe. B) Northeast USA. C) Congo Basin. D) Eastern China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Congo Basin. 17. What is a consequence of competition in a population? A) Increase in population size. B) Decrease in population size. C) Stable population size. D) Unchanged population dynamics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decrease in population size. 18. True or false:Ecosystems are made up of both living and non-living things. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. The movement of individuals into or out of a population A) Survivorship. B) Life expectancy. C) Demography. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Migration. 20. What desert is found in the north of Africa? A) Siberia. B) Sahara. C) Kalahari. D) African. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sahara. 21. What is a population in ecological terms? A) A group of different species living in the same area. B) A group of organisms of different species living in different areas. C) A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area. D) A single organism living in an area. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area. 22. The range or area occupied by a population is its A) Growth rate. B) Geographic distribution. C) Age structure. D) Population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geographic distribution. 23. Difference between birth and death rates A) Mortality. B) Fertility. C) Doubling time. D) Natural Increase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natural Increase. 24. ..... the number of individuals in a population A) Dispersion. B) Population density. C) Population size. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population size. 25. The maximum number of individuals in a species that an environment can support for the long term A) Biodiversity. B) Ecosystem. C) Carrying capacity. D) Population density. 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