Populations

Which of the following best describes a population?

• members of the same species living in the same place at the same time
• all the red birds in an area
• all types of organisms living in the same place
• all members of the same species

Exponential growth is slow and gradual.

• True
• False

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

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

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.

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

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-LS2-1

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.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• emigration
• abandonment
• immigration
• succession

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NGSS.HS-LS2-1

Populations consist of

• a single species

• multiple species

• the biotic and abiotic factors of an environment

• a grouping of ecosystems

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

What decreases the size of a population

• immigration

• emigration

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4