How Populations Grow

What is a population?

• Both the living and non-living things in an area

• All of the living things in an area

• A group of the same species in an area

• The entire earth where anything is living

Does this graph show logistic or exponential growth?

• Exponential

• Logistic

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Which of the following is NOT a type of distribution?

• Uniform

• Independent

• Clumped

• Random

What is the carrying capacity?

• The maximum number of individuals in a population that an area can support

• The maximum amount of communities that can fit in an ecosystem

• How much time it takes a population to get to a certain number of individuals

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CHECK ALL OF THE FOLLOWING reasons that lead to population GROWTH

• Death

• Emigration

• Immigration

• Birth

What does a growth rate of 57% mean?

• The population has decreased by 57%

• The population size has not changed

• The population size has increased by 57%

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