Population Ecology Review

What is an environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing?

• Carrying Capacity

• Immigration

• Limiting Factor

• Population Density

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What is a group of the same species living in the same area?

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Species

What term describes the number of births in a population in a certain amount of time?

• Birth Rate

• Death Rate

• Emigration

• Immigration

Which factors only affect a population when it reaches a certain density?

• Density Dependent Limiting Factors

• Density Independent Limiting Factors

• Emigration

• Immigration

What term describes the number of individual in a specific area, or the size of a population?

• Carrying Capacity

• Population Density

• Limiting Factor

• Population

What term means leaving a population?

• Birth Rate

• Death Rate

• Emigration

• Immigration

What term describes the largest population that an environment can support?

• Carrying Capacity

• Limiting Factor

• Population

• Population Density

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What term describes the number of deaths in a population in a certain amount of time?

• Birth Rate

• Death Rate

• Emigration

• Immigration

What are factors that affect a population no matter what its density is?

• Density Dependent Limiting Factors

• Density Independent Limiting Factors

• Population Density

• Carrying Capacity

What term describes moving into a population?

• Birth Rate

• Death Rate

• Emigration

• Immigration