Population Ecology 2

As a population grows, it will most likely stop growing at what size?

• Growth limit
• Exponential limit
• Carrying Capacity
• It won't stop growing

The major human causes of extinction today are

• hunting and destroying habitats.
• polluting and introducing non-native species.
• Both
• Neither

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which dispersion pattern is described by organisms being spaced out equally?

• Uniform
• Random
• Clumped 
• None of these

Which dispersion pattern usually is a result of resources not being evenly spread out in the environment?

• Uniform
• Random
• Clumped
• None of these

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

What will happen to the population when the death rate is larger than the birth rate?

• grow
• shrink
• stay the same
• None of these

What will happen to the population when the birth rate is larger than the death rate?

• grow
• shrink
• stay the same

Which will add more organisms to a population? 

• 5 animals die
• 0 animals are born
• 3 animals immigrate to the population
• 2 animals emmigrate from the population

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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CCSS.HSF-IF.C.7E

Which kind of dispersion is #1?

• clumped
• random
• uniform

What factor describes when populations decrease because animals are moving out of a population?

• Emigration
• Limiting Factors
• Immigration
• Exponential Growth

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NGSS.HS-LS2-6