Populations

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?

• It will increase.
• It will decrease.
• It will stay the same.
• It will fluctuate.

If the number of births is greater than the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

• It will increase.
• It will decrease.
• It will stay the same.
• It will fluctuate.

Tags

CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-1

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 1.8 million
• 1.25 million
• 1.6 million
• 1.o million

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A
• B
• C
• D

Tags

CCSS.HSF-IF.C.7E

Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are often __________.

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

• a limiting measure
• a limiting factor
• factorization
• materialization of precipitation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then the population will mostly likely...

• stay the same
• decrease
• increase
• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which statement is most accurate based on the graph?

• The zebra and lions do not affect each other
• when lions population increases, so does the zebra population
• When the zebra population increases, it causes the lion population to also increase
• when zebra populations go down, the zebra population goes up. 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• emigration
• abandonment
• immigration
• succession