Carrying Capacity

What is the term that refers to the number of organisms that a region can support without environmental degradation?

• carrying capacity
• limiting factors
• ecosystem
• population density

What term refers to leaving an ecosystem?

• degradation
• emigration
• immigration
• population explosion

What term refers to organisms coming into an ecosystem?

• emigration
• immigration
• degradation
• population density

What term refers to the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution. 

• degradation
• population density
• carrying capacity
• limiting factors

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

This is a variable that hinders or stops the growth of the population of an organism.

• carrying capacity
• limiting factor
• population density
• predation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

This may cause the population of a certain species to increase.

• increase of food supply
• removal or decrease in number of predators
• elimination of disease
• all of these

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

This may cause the population of a certain species to decrease.

• increase in competition for food
• increase of number of predators
• introduction of a disease
• all of these

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

When the death rate and the birth rate are basically equal, you would expect to see ____________________.

• the population  increase.
• the population decrease.
• the population to stay the same.
• the population to rapidly increase and then become stable.

When the death rate of any population is rising and the birth rate is falling, you would expect to see ____________________.

• an increase in population size
• a decrease in population size
• the population to remain steady
• all of these

When the death rate of any population is falling and the birth rate is rising, you would expect to see ____________________.

• an increase in the population.
• a decrease in the population
• the population to remain steady
• the population to go extinct.