Population Ecology Inter-Species

If you have a lot of offspring but do not provide parental care you are described as...

• K- selected
• r- selected
• Q- selected
• w- Selected

The carrying capacity of an environment for a particular species at a particular time is determined by the

• number of individuals in the species.
• distribution of the population.
• reproductive potential of the species.
• supply of the most limited resources

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

Tags

CCSS.HSF-IF.C.7E

What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A
• B
• C
• D

A hawk uses the crown of an oak tree to nest

• predation
• commensalism
• mutualism
• competition

A honeybee and wildflower

• predation
• commensalism
• mutualism
• competition

Dolphin uses echo-location to capture fish

• predation
• commensalism
• mutualism
• competition

Younger trees reaching for limited sunlight in a rain forest canopy 

• predation
• commensalism
• mutualism
• competition

The capacity for growth under ideal conditions

• environmental resistance
• logistic growth
• carrying capacity
• biotic potential

Species with a _____ reproductive pattern are prone to extinction due to lower reproductive rates. 

• r-selected
• irruptive
• irregular
• K-selected