Population Ecology

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 1.8 million
• 1.25 million
• 1.6 million
• 1.o million

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When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?

• Continues to grow

• The environment degrades causing the population to crash

• The population will increase the carrying capacity of the ecosystem

• The population is not affected by the carrying capacity and does whatever it wants to

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Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are often __________.

• limiting factors

• density independent

• shared by all in an ecosystem equally

• not important for survival

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Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

• a non-important resource

• a limiting factor

• factorization

• marginalized variable

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When organisms move out of the population, this is known as

• emigration

• natality

• immigration

• mortality

which statement sounds accurate based on the graph data. 

• The zebra and lions do not affect each other
• when lions population increases, so does the zebra population
• When the zebra population increases, it causes the lion population to also increase
• when zebra populations go down, the zebra population goes up. 

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Which kind of growth does the human population follow? It is described as a J-shaped curve.

• Exponential Growth
• Logistic Growth
• Outstanding Growth
• Minimal Growth

A population is...

• A group of one species in one area
• Multiple species that live in one area
• All of the living and nonliving things in an area
• None of these

What type of growth is represented behind?

• exponential

• logistic

• linear

• representative