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Geography: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Population 3 (Questions)

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A census is carried out to find out about a country's population. Population growth increased significantly as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace from 1700 onwards. The last 50 years have seen a yet more rapid increase.

Test your knowledge in our third Geography quiz on the subject.

Which is a positive factor affecting population density?

[ ]	Coal and minerals
[ ]	Dense forest
[ ]	Mountainous land
[ ]	Very high temperatures

What does population structure mean?

[ ]	The age and sex of the total population
[ ]	The number of females
[ ]	The number of people in work and what they do
[ ]	The number of people over 65

What diagram is used to show population structure?

[ ]	Population cone
[ ]	Population cube
[ ]	Population pyramid
[ ]	Population sphere

Which of these encourages people to have fewer children?

[ ]	Child benefit
[ ]	Family planning
[ ]	Immunisation
[ ]	Poor schools

Birth and death rates are always given per what?

[ ]	Billion people
[ ]	Hundred people
[ ]	Million people
[ ]	Thousand people

An LEDC's population structure has which most common age group?

[ ]	0-15
[ ]	30-45
[ ]	50-65
[ ]	70+

Which of these has the highest population density?

[ ]	Amazon rainforest
[ ]	Himalayas
[ ]	North West Europe
[ ]	Sahara Desert

The difference between birth rate and death rate is called what?

[ ]	Natural increase
[ ]	Normal increase
[ ]	Standard increase
[ ]	Usual increase

What is a physical factor in population density?

[ ]	Availability of jobs
[ ]	Climate
[ ]	Housing
[ ]	Number of hospitals

10.

Which is a 'push' factor in migration?

[ ]	Better education
[ ]	Better paid jobs
[ ]	Higher standards of living
[ ]	Natural disasters

Geography: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Population 3 (Answers)

Which is a positive factor affecting population density?

[x]	Coal and minerals
[ ]	Dense forest
[ ]	Mountainous land
[ ]	Very high temperatures

The other three will discourage settlement

What does population structure mean?

[x]	The age and sex of the total population
[ ]	The number of females
[ ]	The number of people in work and what they do
[ ]	The number of people over 65

What diagram is used to show population structure?

[ ]	Population cone
[ ]	Population cube
[x]	Population pyramid
[ ]	Population sphere

Which of these encourages people to have fewer children?

[ ]	Child benefit
[x]	Family planning
[ ]	Immunisation
[ ]	Poor schools

LEDCs (Less Economically Developed Country) are becoming educated about contraception

Birth and death rates are always given per what?

[ ]	Billion people
[ ]	Hundred people
[ ]	Million people
[x]	Thousand people

An LEDC's population structure has which most common age group?

[x]	0-15
[ ]	30-45
[ ]	50-65
[ ]	70+

LEDCs have high birth rates

Which of these has the highest population density?

[ ]	Amazon rainforest
[ ]	Himalayas
[x]	North West Europe
[ ]	Sahara Desert

The difference between birth rate and death rate is called what?

[x]	Natural increase
[ ]	Normal increase
[ ]	Standard increase
[ ]	Usual increase

What is a physical factor in population density?

[ ]	Availability of jobs
[x]	Climate
[ ]	Housing
[ ]	Number of hospitals

The others are human factors

10.

Which is a 'push' factor in migration?

[ ]	Better education
[ ]	Better paid jobs
[ ]	Higher standards of living
[x]	Natural disasters

The rest are 'pull' factors