Populations, Communities and Ecosystems

If the number of births in a population is the same as 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.

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.

Tags

CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-1

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

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Natural disasters can be considered limiting factors.

• true
• false

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

is the movement of individuals into an area

• moving

• immigration

• emigration

the number of organisms living in a given amount

of space

• Population density

• limiting factor

• carrying factor

to count all the members of a population

• Direct Observation
• Indirect Observation
• Sampling
• Mark-and-recapture

counting all the crabs one by one in a tide pool to find the population

• Direct Observation
• Indirect Observation
• Sampling
• Mark-and-recapture

looking at number of mud nests of swallows, using that to count the population

• Direct Observation
• Indirect Observation
• Sampling
• Mark-and-recapture