#13 Check Your Understanding of Carrying Capacity

Look at this image- What is the carrying capacity of this population?

• 21

• 5000

• 2000

• 1000

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A
• B
• C
• D

As resources become less available the growth of a population

• slows or stops

• decreases or increases

• up or down

• in or out

Factor that causes population growth to decrease.

• growth factor

• limiting factor

• density factor

• environmental factor

This may cause a population to increase

• increase of food supply

• removal of predators

• removal of disease

• all of these

Something that regulates the size of a population is called...

• a limiting measure

• a limiting factor

• carrying capacity

• biodiversity

Which of the following would INCREASE the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• increase in predators
• disease
• increase in available food
• drought

When death rate is equal to birth rate...

• population increases

• population decreases

• population stays the same.

• population rapidly increases then becomes stable

When the death rate rises and the birth rate lowers...

• population increases

• population decreases

• population stays the same

• all of these