Populations

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• stay the same
• decrease
• increase

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• emigration
• abandonment
• immigration
• succession

An example of a population is

• all trees in a forest
• all maple trees in a forest
• all plants in a forest
• all animals in a forest

If the death rate of a population is greater than the birthrate, the population decreases.

• True
• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

number of organisms per certain area

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

The number of organisms in a population which die each year 

• Death Rate
• Birth Rate
• Immigration
• Emigration

When organisms move into and join a new population

• Immigration
• Birth Rate
• Death Rate
• Emigration