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Population Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

What is the term for the total number of people living in a place?

a)

Population

b)

Population density

c)

Urbanization

d)

Rate of natural increase

2.

The birth rate refers to the:

a)

Number of babies born per year

b)

Number of people who die per year

c)

Number of people who move to a city per year

d)

Number of people who immigrate per year

3.

If lots of people are moving to a big city from the countryside, that city is experiencing:

a)

urbanization

b)

immigration

c)

discrimination

d)

persecution

4.

The number of people who die in a year is called the:

a)

death rate.

b)

rate of natural increase.

c)

birth rate.

d)

rural rate.

5.

Population density is a measurement of:

a)

the number of people per square mile.

b)

the total number of people living somewhere.

c)

the number of immigrants living somewhere.

d)

the average income of a group of people.

6.

If you want to calculate population density, you need to know an area's total population and:

a)

the area's total size.

b)

the area's economic strength.

c)

the area's level of urbanization.

d)

the area's death rate.

7.

Urbanization results in people moving to:

a)

big cities.

b)

small towns.

c)

farming villages.

d)

the interior.

8.

What does a demographer study?

a)

Populations

b)

Economics

c)

Governments

d)

Culture

9.

This image shows a(n):

a)

urban area.

b)

rural area.

c)

coastal area.

d)

interior area.

10.

This image shows a(n):

a)

rural area.

b)

urban area.

c)

coastal area.

d)

developed area.

11.

Moving from Detroit to Chicago is an example of:

a)

migration

b)

immigration

c)

discrimination

d)

persecution

12.

Which of these is an example of immigration?

a)

Moving from Japan to China

b)

Moving from New York to Atlanta

c)

Moving from Detroit to Lansing

d)

Moving from Washington to California

13.

Factors that make people want to come to a place are called:

a)

pull factors

b)

push factors

c)

culture factors

d)

urban factors

14.

Factors that make people want to leave a place are called:

a)

push factors

b)

pull factors

c)

urban factors

d)

rural factors

15.

The foods people eat and the clothes they wear are part of their:

a)

culture

b)

discrimination

c)

immigration

d)

population density

16.

A person who leaves her home to escape from danger is a(n):

a)

refugee.

b)

diversity.

c)

persecutor.

d)

rural.

17.

Which phrase best defines the term 'diversity'?

a)

Lots of different people living together

b)

People fleeing a country to escape violence

c)

Treating people badly because of their race

d)

Encouraging people to move to a city

18.

Putting somebody in jail because of the religion they believe in is an example of:

a)

persecution

b)

immigration

c)

demography

d)

urbanization

19.

This image is an example of a:

a)

coastal area.

b)

interior area.

c)

refugee area.

d)

urban area.

20.

A place located in the interior of a country would be:

a)

in the middle of the country.

b)

on the edge of the country.

c)

near the country's largest body of water.

d)

in the wealthiest part of the country.