Population Ecology Review

What type of growth model is this?

• exponential growth model
• logistic growth model
• Type I curve
• Type III curve

What is the approximate population of men age 65-69 in the US in 2014? (see pyramid)

• 7.5 million
• 10.5 million
• 5 million
• 12 million

What is the name of the diagram shown?

• Logistic growth
• Exponential growth
• Agre structure diagram
• Gender graphs 

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

• carrying capacity
• primary succession 
• denitrification
• mutualism

This is what happens as a population approaches carrying capacity and individual organisms from the population leave and go to a new area where they can find enough resources for survival and reproduction?

• Competition
• Predation
• Emigration
• Immigration

What do you call a period of rapid growth?

• Exponential growth
• Logistic growth
• Emigration
• Mortality

Which of the following words means death rate?

• Natality
• Mortality
• Emigration
• Immigration

Many members of one species in an area

• Ecosystem
• community
• biodiversity
• population

Organisms move into a new area

• Competition
• Predation
• Emigration
• Immigration

An environmental factor such as predation, disease, and competition that depends on the number of members in a population per unit

• dispersion
• density- independent factor
• density- dependent factor
• population growth rate