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Geography: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Population 2 (Questions)

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Population is all the inhabitants of a particular place. The population of some countries, such as Nigeria and China, is not even known to the nearest million!

See how much you know about the subject in our second Geography quiz all about population.

Population density is the number of people per what?

[ ]	Square centimeter
[ ]	Square decametre
[ ]	Square kilometer
[ ]	Square meter

A very rapid increase is a population what?

[ ]	Elevation
[ ]	Eruption
[ ]	Explosion
[ ]	Overload

Which of these is classed as an LEDC?

[ ]	Brazil
[ ]	Canada
[ ]	Japan
[ ]	Switzerland

What is meant by population distribution?

[ ]	How spread out a population is
[ ]	If there are enough houses
[ ]	The number of people in an area
[ ]	The ratio of people to jobs

What word describes a low population density?

[ ]	Abandoned
[ ]	Bare
[ ]	Sparse
[ ]	Sprinkled

A 'one child only' policy helped population control in which country?

[ ]	Australia
[ ]	China
[ ]	Ethiopia
[ ]	Germany

What does immigration mean?

[ ]	Moving from city to countryside
[ ]	Moving within a country
[ ]	Permanently entering a new country
[ ]	Visiting for a long holiday

The number of children who die very young is the infant what?

[ ]	Moratorium rate
[ ]	Morbidity rate
[ ]	Mortality rate
[ ]	Mortuary rate

Which 'transition model' shows changes in population size over time?

[ ]	Demographic
[ ]	Folkographic
[ ]	Hydrographic
[ ]	Popographic

10.

What term means the average age people will live to?

[ ]	Life estimate
[ ]	Life expectancy
[ ]	Life guess
[ ]	Life prediction

Geography: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Population 2 (Answers)

Population density is the number of people per what?

[ ]	Square centimeter
[ ]	Square decametre
[x]	Square kilometer
[ ]	Square meter

The UK's is about 240 people per sq.km.

A very rapid increase is a population what?

[ ]	Elevation
[ ]	Eruption
[x]	Explosion
[ ]	Overload

Which of these is classed as an LEDC?

[x]	Brazil
[ ]	Canada
[ ]	Japan
[ ]	Switzerland

A Less Economically Developed Country

What is meant by population distribution?

[x]	How spread out a population is
[ ]	If there are enough houses
[ ]	The number of people in an area
[ ]	The ratio of people to jobs

What word describes a low population density?

[ ]	Abandoned
[ ]	Bare
[x]	Sparse
[ ]	Sprinkled

Greenland is an example of a sparsely populated place

A 'one child only' policy helped population control in which country?

[ ]	Australia
[x]	China
[ ]	Ethiopia
[ ]	Germany

Chinese were fined if they had more than one child!

What does immigration mean?

[ ]	Moving from city to countryside
[ ]	Moving within a country
[x]	Permanently entering a new country
[ ]	Visiting for a long holiday

The number of children who die very young is the infant what?

[ ]	Moratorium rate
[ ]	Morbidity rate
[x]	Mortality rate
[ ]	Mortuary rate

LEDCs have a high infant mortality rate

Which 'transition model' shows changes in population size over time?

[x]	Demographic
[ ]	Folkographic
[ ]	Hydrographic
[ ]	Popographic

10.

What term means the average age people will live to?

[ ]	Life estimate
[x]	Life expectancy
[ ]	Life guess
[ ]	Life prediction

In some LEDCs life expectancy can be less than 30!