Bio Population Dynamics Review 5.1

When individuals join a population

• Aliens
• migration
• Immigration
• Emigration

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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What are two ways in which the environment can influence population size?

• competition and natural disasters
• biomes and ecosystems

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Populations of organisms are dynamic (meaning changing).

• True

• False

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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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The graph below represents the growth of a population of flies in a car? Which of the following statements best describes the graph?

• The fly population did not change.

• The fly population decreased, then increased.

• The fly population grew following the logistic growth model.

• The fly population grew following the exponential growth model.

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Which point in this graph represents exponential growth?

• Point E

• Point A

• Point B

• Point C

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The graph represents _____ of a population.

• logistic growth model

• exponential growth model

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Which point on the graph best represents the carrying capacity?

• Letter A

• Letter C

• Letter E

• Letter D

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In which month(s) did the Cottontail Rabbits reach their carrying capacity?

• January and February

• March and May

• April and January

• April and May

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