Introduction to Ecology (Population Ecology)

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If the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

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It will stay the same.

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When organisms move out of the population, this is known as

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emigration

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What type of growth model is shown in image B?

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Exponential

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What type of growth model is shown in image A?

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Logistic

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Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

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a limiting factor

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This graph shows ....

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When one population increases, it causes the other to increase shortly after.

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What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population? Options: 1.8 million, 1.25 million, 1.6 million, 1.0 million

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1.6 million

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What happens to a population when it grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity?

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The population starts to die off to return to carrying capacity.

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Mice are living happily in a field at a carrying capacity. The owls that live near that field die of old age. Which graph below shows what would happen to the mice population?

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It's the number of organisms per unit area.

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population density