Population Ecology Quiz

Carrying Capacity is

• the capacity of what one person can carry per day 
• how many animals you have in your daily bag limit at the end of the year
• wildebeest at a watering hole with zebras
• the maximum number of individuals that the environment can support

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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

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What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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What will happen to the population when the death rate is larger than the birth rate?

• grow
• shrink
• stay the same
• None of these

What type of growth is represented here?

• exponential

• logistics

• a good kind

• linear

How can a population grow?

• Emigration and death

• Immigration and death

• Immigration and birth

• Emigration and birth

"Deaths caused by disease" is an example of a ___________________________ population regulator.

• density independent

• limiting resource

• density dependent

• mutualistic

An organism that tends to have a low life expectancy and increased birth rate is known as a

• k-strategist.

• r-strategist.

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THESE SPECIES ONLY MAKE A FEW BABIES IN THEIR LIFETIME AND THEY INVEST IN THEM HEAVILY...

• K-SELECTED

• R-SELECTED

• P-SELECTED

• Z-SELECTED

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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