Unit 7 - Review II - Overpopulated

The largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support is called the...

• exponential growth
• carrying capacity
• biodiversity
• limiting factor

Plants and animals that have migrated to areas where they did not originate and often displace native species by out-competing them for resources are called...

• pollution
• habitat fragmentation
• invasive species
• overexploitation

When a habitat is broken into smaller pieces, usually as a result of human activities, is called?

• pollution
• habitat fragmentation
• invasive species
• overexploitation

In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt created the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve which put a ban on all deer hunting and recruited the Forest Service to exterminate the predators of the deer. This is an example of what?

• pollution
• invasive species
• habitat fragmentation
• overexploitation

What type of growth model is this?

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

What is the carrying capacity of this graph?

• 100
• 500
• 1000
• 2000

What is the carrying capacity of this graph?

• 100
• 500
• 1000
• 2000

  Food, water, sunlight, air, and soil are resources that are often __________.

• biodiversity sources
• not important to the environment
• limiting factors
• not found in an environment

In this graph, the factor controlling the population of sea urchins is:

• competition of other herbivores
• the presence of predators
• the presence of predators and the availability of food
• the availability of food

If the population of a certain predator DECREASES, there is often  _______ its prey

• no impact on
• an increase in the population
• a decrease in the population
• great news for