Population Growth

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 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

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-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• Decrease
• Increase

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NGSS.HS-LS2-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

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

Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting to large.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which limiting factor is density independent?

• competition
• disease
• natural disasters

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What causes growth to stop in logistic growth?

• Emigration
• Immigration
• Carrying Capacity

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.

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NGSS.HS-LS2-6