populations

How would you describe the population size at the12th unit of time?

• The population is constant.

• The population is decreasing.

• The population is increasing.

• The population increases then decreases.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

Tags

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• stay the same
• decrease
• increase

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

number of organisms per certain area

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1