Population Growth + Limiting Factors

What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

• exponential growth
• logistic growth 
• predator-prey cycle
• boom-bust curve

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CCSS.HSF-IF.C.7E

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

What do you call a period of rapid growth?

• exponential growth
• logistic growth
• emigration
• predator-prey cycle

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

Which type of growth is best illustrated by this rabbit population?

• exponential
• logistic
• S-shaped
• predator-prey

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NGSS.HS-LS2-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-2

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

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

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CCSS.HSF-IF.C.7E

What is the carrying capacity of this population?

• 100
• 200
• 300
• 400

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-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

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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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Which limiting factor is density independent?

• competition
• disease
• natural disasters

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2