Homeostasis Week 1 Quiz

What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

• around 500
• more than 500
• less than 500
• around 600

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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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The largest number of individuals of a specific 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

Which graph shows a situation in which the number of predators in a population depends on the number of prey?

• Graph F

• Graph G

• Graph H

• Graph J

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All of the following statements concerning characteristics of predator-prey relationship are correct EXCEPT:

• The population of predators most often eliminates the population of prey
• A rise in the population of predators is followed by a decrease in the population of prey.
• A rise in the population of prey is often followed by a rise in the population of predators.

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Which is the predator?

• rotifer

• zebra mussel

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What statement is TRUE about the graph?

• The prey is the blue line because it quickly drops after the red line begins to increase.

• The prey is the red line because it quickly increases after the blue line decreases.

• There is no predator prey relationship displayed on this graph.

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Predator population lags behind prey population because:

• Increase in predators leads to decrease in prey

• Increase in predators leads to decrease in producers

• Increase in predators leads to increase in prey

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What is the carrying capacity of the prey?

• ~1000

• ~1500

• ~20

• ~40

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