Population ecology review

Which dispersion pattern is usually a result of resources not being evenly spread out in the environment?

• Uniform

• Random

• Clumped

• None of these

Which kind of dispersion is #1?

• clumped
• random
• uniform

Which types of animals generally clump their populations for protection?

• Predators

• Prey

• Decomposers

The carrying capacity of an environment for a particular species at a particular time is determined by the

• number of individuals in the species.
• distribution of the population.
• reproductive potential of the species.
• supply of the most limited resources

As a population grows, it will most likely stop growing at what size?

• Growth limit
• Exponential limit
• Carrying Capacity
• It won't stop growing

Environmental factors that keep a population from increasing. 

• Carrying Capacity
• Limiting Factors

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

• True
• False

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

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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

The physical limits of a population habitat

• Ecosystem

• Geographic range

• community