1.4 Learn: Graphing Populations

1.4 Learn: Graphing Populations

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Learning objectives

• SW learn feature of exponential growth curve

• SW learn features of logistic growth curves

• SW practice identifying different growth curves

Multiple Choice

1. 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?

• Increase

• Decrease

• Fluctuate

• Stay the same

Multiple Choice

2. Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support...

• Lag Phase

• Mutation

• Carrying capacity

• Mutualism

Multiple Choice

3. What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 1.8 million

• 1.25 million

• 1.0 million

• 1.6 million

Multiple Choice

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

• Immigration

• Emigration

• Migration

• Abandonment

Multiple Choice

What type of growth is represented on the diagram?

• Logistic growth cure

• Exponential Growth curve

• Carrying capacity

• a good kind of a graph

Multiple Choice

What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Lesson Review

• We learned the features of exponential anf logistic growth curves

• We learned about carrying capacity