Population Ecology

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What causes growth to stop in the 3rd phase of logistic growth? Options: Emigration, Immigration, Exponential Growth, Carrying Capacity

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Carrying Capacity

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True or False: Limiting factors can be population dependent and population independent.

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True

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Which limiting factor is independent of the number of individuals in a population? Options: competition, parasitism/disease, stress, natural disasters

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natural disasters

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What does the graph represent? Options: Emigration, Exponential growth, Immigration, Logistic Growth

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Exponential growth

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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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A population is...

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A group of one species in one area

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To measure population density, you must divide the number of individuals living in a defined space by the

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area of the space

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What type of growth is shown on this graph? Options: logistic, exponential, average, density-independent

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logistic

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Which of the following is a density-independent limiting factor? Options: natural disaster, predation, disease, parasitism

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natural disaster