Population Dynamics

What type of growth model is this?

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

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Carrying Capacity is

• the capacity of what one person can carry per day 
• how many animals you have in your daily bag limit at the end of the year
• wildebeest at a watering hole with zebras
• the maximum number of individuals that the environment can support

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diagram that shows the energy available to each trophic level in an ecosystem; 10% is passed on to upper levels, the rest is lost as heat

• succession 
• cellular respiration
• energy pyramid
• biochemical cycle

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What does a food web represent?

• All connections of energy flow throughout all organisms in a habitat.
• The specific ways that mutualism is carried out.
• A single pathway or energy flow between organisms. 
• How carnivores get their food. 

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Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

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This graph shows the population growth curve for a sparrows in Forsyth County.  What is the carrying capacity?

• 50
• 200
• 280
• 300

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Number of individuals per unit area.

• population density
• dispersion
• biotic potential
• carrying capacity

In the year 1865 the rabbit population seems to soar above the lynx (bobcat) population.  What might be a cause for this?

• a disease hit the lynx population
• the rabbits ran out of food
• the lynx may have stopped eating rabbits altogether
• the rabbit population got a disease

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This picture of a bird's nest in a tree is an example of which type of species interaction?

• parasitism
• predator-prey
• mutualism
• commensalism

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What would happen if the population of hawks suddenly increased? How would it affect the other organisms in the ecosystem?

• The snakes would decrease due to more hawks eating them
• All of the population of organisms would increase
• The biotic factors in the ecosystem would increase
• The hawks predators would decrease

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