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title: Population and cities — how Mova does on the tests · Geography
description: Lesson 24 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Population and cities

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 5 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 24 of the geography course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/).

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### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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My mate says the world has always had about 8 billion people. Right?

- **1.** Yes, but they lived only in Europe — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** No, around 1337 there were perhaps only about 400 million — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** No, there used to be many more than now — no support
- **4.** Yes, the number of people on Earth has hardly changed in a thousand years — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 17: «Migration means people moving to live in another place, inside their country or abroad.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «people» (+4); the same action «live» (+2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t1/)

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### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2}

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Why do so few people live in the Sahara?

- **1.** There is too little water to farm — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It is too cold at night for anyone — no support
- **3.** It is against the law to live there — no support
- **4.** The sand is too hot to build on at all — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Egypt's people are packed in a thin strip. Where is it?

- **1.** Along the Red Sea mountains — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Along the River Nile — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Around the oases of Libya — no support
- **4.** In the middle of the Sahara — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t3/)

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### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4}

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Why did London grow where it did?

- **1.** A king picked a random spot on a map — no support
- **2.** It was the lowest point where the Thames could be bridged — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** It was the farthest place from the sea — no support
- **4.** It was on the highest hill in England, safe from floods and enemies — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 3: «Cities grew at useful spots: where a river could be bridged, where a harbour was sheltered, where trade routes met. London grew at the lowest point where the T…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «lowest point» (+3); the same action «bridge» (+2); the same thing acted on «thames» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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In the game, a small rich province can hold more people than a huge empty one. Is that true of real countries?

- **1.** No, bigger countries always have more people — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** No, population depends only on the number of cities — no support
- **3.** Yes, but only in the 1300s — no support
- **4.** Yes, Bangladesh has far more people than huge Australia — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 24, line 14: «Some countries, such as Japan and Italy, have many old people and few births, while countries such as Niger have very young populations; with few births there…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «countries» (+4); the same thing acted on «young populations» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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Japan has lots of old people and few babies. Why might it worry?

- **1.** Fewer young workers to look after everyone later — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The country will get bigger in size — no support
- **3.** Old people use up all the land, so no new homes can ever be built — no support
- **4.** Babies are not allowed in Japan — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t6/)

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### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Niger's median age is under 16. What does that mean?

- **1.** Its people live only to 16 — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Children there start work at 16 — no support
- **3.** Half its people are younger than 16 — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Nobody there is older than 16 — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t7/)

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### Test 8 · right ✓ {#t8}

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Gran: "Most people live in villages, always have." Is that true today?

- **1.** No, since about 2007 most people live in towns and cities — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** Yes, villages still hold most people in the world today, as they always did — no support
- **3.** Yes, and cities are getting smaller — no support
- **4.** No, most people now live in megacities alone — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 10, line 11: «Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years, and British colonisation from 1788 brought disease, violence a…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+2); the same doer «aboriginal» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Which continent has the most megacities?

- **1.** Antarctica — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Australia — no support
- **3.** Asia — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Europe — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t9/)

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### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10}

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My uncle moved from Kerala to Dubai for a job. What is that called?

- **1.** Migration — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Colonisation — no support
- **3.** Population density — no support
- **4.** Urban sprawl — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t10/)

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### Test 11 · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Why can a small country hold more people than a huge one?

- **1.** Its land may be flatter, wetter and better for farming — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Small countries make people live longer, so more of them are alive at once — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **3.** Big countries do not allow cities — score 2
- **4.** People are counted twice in small countries — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 24, line 14: «Some countries, such as Japan and Italy, have many old people and few births, while countries such as Niger have very young populations; with few births there…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «countries» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the principal reason for which the majority of the world's great cities arose at particular locations.

- **1.** Such locations were selected at random by the rulers of the period, without regard to geography — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Such locations were invariably elevated mountain summits — no support
- **3.** Such locations afforded river crossings, sheltered harbours or the convergence of trade routes — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Such locations were distant from all sources of water — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises population density?

- **1.** The proportion of inhabitants residing in towns and cities — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The number of inhabitants per square kilometre of territory — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The aggregate number of inhabitants of a sovereign state — no support
- **4.** The average age of the inhabitants of a territory — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the most populous states in 2026.

- **1.** India and China each comprise approximately 1.4 billion persons — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** China has never been exceeded in population by any state — no support
- **3.** The United States comprises the greatest number of persons of any state — no support
- **4.** Russia comprises more persons than India and China combined — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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It is given that the Black Death traversed Europe between 1347 and 1351. Ascertain the proportion of the population of Europe it is estimated to have destroyed.

- **1.** Perhaps one third to one half — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Approximately ninety-nine per cent — no support
- **3.** None whatsoever, it affected livestock alone — no support
- **4.** Approximately one per cent — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/24-population-and-cities/e4/)

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