Population Vocab Quiz

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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CCSS.HSF-IF.C.7E

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

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

• carrying capacity
• emigration
• immigration
• population density

Which of the following is NOT one of the three demographic variables displayed on the demographic transition model?

• Population

• Rate of Natural Increase

• Crude Birth Rate

• Crude Death Rate

Which of the following best describe government's reaction to low fertility rates in stages 4 & 5?

• Pro-natalist policy
• Anti-natalist policy

Total # of people per unit of farm land

• population density

• physiological density

• arithmetic density

• agricultural

Total # of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society

• Crude Death Rate

• Crude Birth Rate

• Doubling Time

• Life Expectancy

# of people under 15 and over 64 compared to the number of workers

• Elderly Support Ratio

• Natural Increase Rate

• Dependency Ratio

• Arithmetic Density

Parts of Earth's surface permanently settled by humans

• Census

• Country

• Ecumene

• Carrying Capacity

Ratio of farmers to farm land

• Arithmetic Density

• Physiological Density

• Agricultural Density

• Population Density