Population Growth

Which of the following describes a population?

• The total number of people, animals, and plants in New York City

• The total number of apartments in New York City

• The total number of people living in New York City

• The amount of water in the Hudson River

What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

• exponential growth

• logistic growth

• predator-prey cycle

• boom-bust curve

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support...

• carrying capacity

• population

• biome

• mutualism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 2.0 million

• 1.0 million

• 1.6 million

• 0.5 million

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the approximate carrying capacity of Paramecium aurelia grown alone?

• 100

• 200

• 300

• 450

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

If a disease destroying wheat plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the bird population that feed off of the wheat in the the field ?

• The bird population would stay the same

• The bird population would increase

• The bird population would decrease

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Will competition increase or decrease the population of a species of animals?

• Decrease

• Increase

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what most likley happens to the population?

• Continues to grow

• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity

• The population will go completely extinct due to lack of resources

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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