Lesson 3.2.4.5
3.2.4.5 Population ecology and its application to human populations Quiz: AQA Geography, Unit 2
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The 20 questions
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What term describes the maximum population size an environment can sustainably support?
- Optimum population
- Carrying capacity
- Population density
- Ecological footprint
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Which term describes a population that is larger than the environment can sustain in the long term?
- Underpopulation
- Carrying capacity
- Overpopulation
- Optimum population
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What term describes the population size that yields the highest quality of life?
- Overpopulation
- Carrying capacity
- Underpopulation
- Optimum population
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Which concept measures the area of productive land and water needed to support a population's consumption and waste?
- Demographic dividend
- Ecological footprint
- Natural increase
- Dependency ratio
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Which feedback loop in population models acts to counter change and restore stability?
- Positive feedback
- Linear feedback
- Cumulative feedback
- Negative feedback
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According to Thomas Malthus, how does agricultural food production increase over time?
- Logarithmically
- Exponentially
- Arithmetically
- Geometrically
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Which theorist argued that human ingenuity allows societies to overcome resource limits?
- Paul Ehrlich
- Julian Simon
- Garrett Hardin
- Thomas Malthus
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Ester Boserup suggested that population growth directly triggers which process?
- Agricultural intensification
- Resource exhaustion
- Population collapse
- Famine and disease
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What key factor did Thomas Malthus famously underestimate in his population theory?
- Natural disasters
- Death rates
- Resource depletion
- Technological innovation
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Which term describes the number of people relative to an area's land mass?
- Dependency ratio
- Natural increase
- Population density
- Replacement rate
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What happens to population growth when a species reaches its carrying capacity?
- Immediate collapse
- Population doubles
- Growth levels off
- Growth accelerates
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Which change would directly increase the ecological footprint of a population?
- Reduced food imports
- Increased recycling
- Lower energy use
- Higher resource consumption
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Besides population size, what directly determines a nation's total resource impact?
- Coastline length
- Per capita consumption
- Time zone size
- Total land area
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Which term describes a region with too few people to fully utilise its resources?
- Carrying capacity
- Underpopulation
- Optimum population
- Overpopulation
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What state occurs when a population size exceeds its environment's carrying capacity?
- Demographic balance
- Optimum population
- Overpopulation
- Underpopulation
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Which feedback loop amplifies an initial change, moving a system further from equilibrium?
- Negative feedback
- Positive feedback
- Neutral feedback
- Static feedback
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Which factor makes human carrying capacity dynamic rather than fixed?
- Genetics
- Fixed land
- Technology
- Solar radiation
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Which thinker is associated with the 1968 book The Population Bomb and with neo-Malthusian warnings about population growth?
- Julian Simon
- Ester Boserup
- Paul Ehrlich
- Thomas Malthus
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A region has a carrying capacity of 50,000 people and a population of 62,000. By what percentage is the population above carrying capacity?
- 24%
- 124%
- 19%
- 12%
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In the population, resources, and pollution model, what reduces resource pressure without changing population size?
- Reducing consumption
- Encouraging migration
- Increasing births
- Lowering longevity
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