Population Ecology and Succession

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 carrying capacity of an environment for a particular species at a particular time is determined by the

• number of individuals in the species.
• distribution of the population.
• reproductive potential of the species.
• supply of the most limited resources

A population is...

• A group of one species in one area
• Multiple species that live in one area
• All of the living and nonliving things in an area
• None of these

What is carrying capacity?

• the max amount a person can carry

• the max amount of people that can live in the world

• the capacity the carry more than anyone else

• the max amount of individuals in a population the environment can support

relationship in which two species live closely together

• resource
• mutualism
• succession
• symbiosis

The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic factors
• Biotic factors

The living portions of the ecosystem.

• Biotic factors
• Abiotic factors

A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

As you move upward, from level to level, in an energy pyramid, energy _____.

• increases
• decreases
• stays the same
• increases exponentially

The study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment.

• Biology
• Lithology
• Ecology
• Farmacology