Ecology SB5a/b recovery quiz

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 a disease destroying barley plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the barley eating bird population in the the field ?

• The bird population would stay the same
• The bird population would infinitely increase
• The bird population would decrease

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The largest number of individuals in a species that an environment can support long term

• carrying capacity
• emigration
• immigration
• population density

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

• a limiting measure
• a limiting factor
• carrying capacity
• biodiversity

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What is a producer?

• Organism that makes its own energy
• Organism that breaks down dead organisms
• Organism that eats other organisms for food & energy

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What is a decomposer?

• Organism that makes its own energy
• Organism that breaks down dead organisms
• Organism that eats other organisms for food & energy

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What is a consumer?

• Organism that makes its own energy
• Organism that breaks down dead organisms
• Organism that eats other organisms for food & energy

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What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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Example of a density dependent factor

• Natural Disaster

• Predators

• Climate

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An example of a density dependent factor

• Natural Disaster

• Disease

• Density Independent Factor

• Height of Individuals