Populations/Succession

What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

• exponential growth

• logistic growth 

• predator-prey cycle

• boom-bust curve

Tags

CCSS.HSF-IF.C.7E

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

• carrying capacity

• population crash

• lag phase

• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-1

What do you call a period of rapid growth?

• exponential growth

• logistic growth

• emigration

• predator-prey cycle

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 1.8 million

• 2.0 million

• 1.6 million

• 1.o million

Type of growth occurs when disease and parasites are present...

• exponential

• J-shaped

• predator-prey

• logistic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

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

• The bird population would stay the same

• The bird population would infinitely increase

• The bird population would decrease

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Will competition increase/decrease the carrying capacity of an ecosystem for the animal in competition?

• Decrease

• Increase

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

Which limiting factor would increase due to the number of individuals in a population?

• Unusual weather

• Natural disaster

• Disease

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which limiting factor is density independent?

• competition

• disease

• natural disasters

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2