Class 9 Geography Chapter 6 Population Quiz 30 (25 MCQs)

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1. What desert is found in the South of Africa?
2. Identify the area of the world that is densely populated.
3. What term is given to the number of births in one year per thousand of the total population?
4. Number of organisms per unit area/volume
5. ..... is all of the living and nonliving things in a given area.
6. A field of daisies is an example of a .....
7. What does 'census' mean?
8. All of the following are examples of limiting factors for a population except .....
9. Which of the following is an example of an anti-immigration policy?
10. In contrast to most animals, which resource do plants typically compete for?
11. All living things are part of a population.
12. Gene flow is a concept best used to describe an exchange between .....
13. In which type of interaction between species does one species benefit by harming another species but not killing it?
14. A ..... is anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
15. Life expectancy is MOST affected by infant mortality.
16. What factor describes when populations increase because animals are moving into a population?
17. A population's emigration in one month totaled 2 individuals. During the same period, immigration was 12 individuals. Natality (births) was 8, and mortality was 15 due to a parasite infection. What was the net effect on the population size?
18. What are push factors of migration?
19. Better education
20. During a long period when there is no rainfall, a mountain lion may temporarily leave its usual hunting territory to drink from a farm pond. This behavior is due to
21. What is the equation for natural increase?
22. Populations can change over time. For instance, if weather and climate conditions for oak trees to produce more acorns than usual then the squirrel population will .....
23. American bison, which are large grazing mammals, are most often found close together in small groups. What might you infer about the spatial distribution of American bison?
24. An animal that hunts an other animal to eat it, is called a
25. This stage of the epidemiological transition describes a reduced mortality associated with infectious diseases and an increase in chronic disorders associated with aging.