Ecology: Populations & Interactions

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

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What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A
• B
• C
• D

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When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?

• Continues to grow
• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity
• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

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

• stay the same
• decrease
• increase
• reach carrying capacity

In a forest ecosystem, which of the following is the best example of a limiting factor for a rabbit population?

• Squirrel Population

• Sunlight

• Available grass

• Rabbits have no limiting factors

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

• limiting factors
• not found in ecosystems
• non-limiting factors
• Biotic

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A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

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Organisms that have similar characteristics and can produce fertile offspring

• Species

• Fish

• Community

• Trees

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Different populations living and interacting with each other in the same area

• Biome
• Ecosystem
• Community
• Niche

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Which is an example of parasitism?

• cat and mouse
• tadpole and frog
• human and tapeworm
• caterpillar and butterfly

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