Populations (4th)

What is happening in a population as it decreases?

• more emigration occurs 
• more immigration occurs
• the birth rate and death rate remain the same

All of the following are limiting factors except

• immigration
• competition
• predation

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What happened to the wolf population between 1980 and 1982?

• it increased rapidly
• it decreased rapidly

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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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which statement sounds accurate based on the graph data. 

• The zebra and lions do not affect each other
• when lions population increases, so does the zebra population
• When the zebra population increases, it causes the lion population to also increase
• when zebra populations go down, the zebra population goes up. 

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number of organisms per certain area

• carrying capacity
• limiting factor
• total population
• population density

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When organisms move out of the population, this is known as

• emigration
• abandonment
• immigration
• succession

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Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are often __________.

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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If the number of births is greater than the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

• It will increase.
• It will decrease.
• It will stay the same.
• It will fluctuate.

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Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support...  

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

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