Question Bank for Grade 9 Geography

The earth area of permanent settlement is called the

• hot zone

• subpolar region

• ecumene

• civilized world

On a cartogram map, the counties depicted as smaller, have

• Lower populations

• lower levels of wealth and higher populations

• higher levels of wealth and higher populations

• lower technical proficiency

Physiological density is the number of

• Farm animals per area suitable for agriculture

• people per area suitable for agriculture

• farmers per area of farmland

• people per area of flat land

Land suited for agriculture is called

• arable land

• arid land

• agricultural density

• population density

A country that would raise its physiological density would do that by....

• increasing the amount of agricultural land

• increasing the area of its urban centers

• increasing the size of its population

• limiting the number of farm animals

A country that raises or increase its agricultural density, if it

• decreased the number of farmers

• decreased the amount of agricultural land

• increased the size of its population

• increased the areas of its urban centers

A country that would lower its arithmetic density by

• limiting the size of its population

• increasing the areas of its urban centers

• limiting the number of farmers

• increasing the size of its population

A country with a large amount of arable land and a small number farmers will have

• high physiological density

• high agricultural density

• low agricultural density

• low arithmetic density

The average number of births women bear in their lifetime

• total birth rate

• crude birth rate

• total fertility rate

• crude fertility rate

The fertility rate based on the number of live berths per 1,000 residents is the

• crude birth rate

• crude fertility rate

• infant birth rate

• natural increase rate