Changes in Population

What is the approximate carrying capacity of the habitat demonstrated on the graph?

• 1000

• 8000

• 800

• 600

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When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?

• It continues to grow.

• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capacity.

• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources.

• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity.

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In approximately what year did the population shown in the graph reach, or exceed, its carrying capacity?

• 1850

• 1900

• 1825

• 1800

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If there is an increase in deer hunting, the deer population is going to ---

• increase.

• decrease.

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The largest number of individuals in a species that an environment can support long term ---

• carrying capacity.

• emigration.

• immigration.

• population density.

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If a disease destroying barley plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the barley-eating bird population that lives in the the field?

• The bird population would stay the same.

• The bird population would infinitely increase.

• The bird population would decrease.

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Temperature, light, air, water, soil and climate are all ______ parts of the environment.

• biotic

• abiotic

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Group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time

• population
• species
• community
• biome

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Limiting factor that relies on the number of organisms in a given area

• density-dependent

• density-independent

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Which of the following is NOT a density-dependent limiting factor?

• flood
• disease
• predation
• competition

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