Ecology Part 1 Review

What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

• exponential growth
• logistic growth 
• predator-prey cycle
• boom-bust curve

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

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NGSS.HS-LS2-1

What do you call a period of rapid growth?

• exponential growth
• logistic growth
• emigration
• predator-prey cycle

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

Which type of growth is best illustrated by this rabbit population?

• exponential
• logistic
• S-shaped
• predator-prey

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NGSS.HS-LS2-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-2

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 1.8 million
• 1.25 million
• 1.6 million
• 1.o million

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CCSS.HSF-IF.C.7E

Type of growth that occurs when disease and parasites are present...

• exponential
• J-shaped
• predator-prey
• logistic

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NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

What is the carrying capacity of this population?

• 100
• 200
• 300
• 400

What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A
• B
• C
• D

Will competition increase/decrease the carrying capacity of an ecosystem for the animal in competition?

• Decrease
• Increase

Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting to large.

• True
• False