Chapter 4 Environmental Science Test Review

What factor describes when populations increase because animals are moving into a population?

• Emigration
• Limiting Factors
• Immigration
• Exponential Growth

What factor describes when populations decrease because animals are moving out of a population?

• Emigration
• Limiting Factors
• Immigration
• Exponential Growth

What does the graph represent?

• Emigration
• Exponential growth
• Immigration
• Logistic Growth

What does the graph represent?

• Emigration

• Exponential growth

• Immigration

• Logistic Growth

Logistic growth has 3 phases. In Phase 1, the population grows rapidly. In Phase 2, population grows slowly. In Phase 3, growth stops. What causes growth to stop in the 3rd phase of logistic growth?

• Emigration
• Immigration
• Exponential Growth
• Carrying Capacity

Which limiting factor is independent of the number of individuals in a population?

• competition
• parasitism/disease
• stress
• natural disasters

Which limiting factor would increase due to the number of individuals in a population?

• Unusual weather
• Natural disaster
• Births
• Disease

Which of the following describes a population that is distributed evenly across an area?

• random

• uniform

• clumped

• crowded

The picture shown is of the Monteverde Cloud Forest. Which of the following is a biotic factor visible in the image?

• rocks

• golden toads

• water

• plants

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The largest population size a given environment can sustainably support is known as its

• limiting capacity.

• logistic limit.

• carrying capacity.

• biotic potential.