Populations

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.

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

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

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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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then the population will mostly likely...

• stay the same
• decrease
• increase

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

• a limiting measure
• a limiting factor
• factorization
• materialization of precipitation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

number of organisms per certain area

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

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

• emigration
• abandonment
• immigration
• succession

Which of the following best describes a population?

• members of the same species living in the same place at the same time
• all the red birds in an area
• all types of organisms living in the same place
• all members of the same species

Which factor contributed most to the exponential growth of the human population?

• more food, better hygiene
• higher birth rates
• higher fertility rates
• increased immigration