Population RGF

The United States and Canada are countries in which continent?

• South America
• North America
• Africa
• Europe

The average number of years an individual is predicted to live is called

• carrying capacity
• demograhpy
• growth rate
• life expectancy

Which area would have the lowest population density?

• seacoast in Europe
• tundra in Russia
• river in China
• suburb in the U.S.A

What event in the mid 1700s significantly human population growth?

• human settlement began
• bubonic plague
• development of agriculture
• industrial revolution

The amount of people living in a given area is described as population

• expectancy
• morality
• density
• rate

The stark contrast between affluent and poor societies in today's world is often call the 

• demography
• life expectancy
• growth rate
• wealth gap

This factor causes a population to decrease due to members moving out.

• mortality
• emigration
• natality
• immigration

What is the maximum number of individuals that can live sustainably within a defined area called

• maximum overload
• terminal population
• carrying capacity
• ideal population

Biotic or abiotic things that control the size of a population. (Such as food, competition, natural disasters, space)

• Limiting factor

• density- dependent factor

• density- independent factot

• tolerance

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