Population Ecology Review

What type of growth model is this?

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

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_______________ have the greatest affect when a population is tightly packed together.

• Normal Factors
• Density Independent Limiting Factors
• Density Dependent Limiting Factors
• Biochemical Factors

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Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support...represented by the letter K.

• carrying capacity
• primary succession 
• denitrification
• mutualism

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________________ is the study of human populations.

• Anthropology
• Demography
• Geography
• Histology

The species that starts life in primary succession (ex. after volcanic eruption)

• Lichen
• plant
• carnivore
• cellular respiration 

The process by which a new community forms where no community lived before (look at the diagram)

• resource
• invasive (non- native) species
• primary succession
• competition

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Many members of one species in an area

• Ecosystem
• community
• biodiversity
• population

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Spatial distribution of a population can be limited by ________________ factors.

• abiotic
• biotic
• abiotic and biotic
• neither

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Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of populations?

• density
• growth
• distribution
• range

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