Population Ecology

Animals such as pandas are long lived, mature slowly, and generally produce fewer offspring during their life spans but place a greater investment in each. What term is applied to this type of reproductive strategy?

• K-strategy

• r-strategy

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What type of factor has an increasing impact as the population size increases?

• density-independent

• density-dependent

• cohort effect

• survivorship factor

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As a population of a species increases within a territory, which of the following most likely also increases?

• Immigration

• Food supply

• Carrying capacity

• Competition

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At carrying capacity, a population __________.

• increases rapidly

• increases slowly

• decreases slowly

• is in dynamic equilibrium

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Which choice most closely approximates the deer population's carrying capacity based on the graph?

• 100

• 80

• 60

• 10

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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.

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

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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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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

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In a forest ecosystem, which of the following is the best example of a limiting factor for a rabbit population?

• Squirrel Population
• Sunlight
• Grass available

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