population ecology

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

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

• Unusual weather
• Natural disaster
• Births
• Disease

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

• competition
• parasitism/disease
• stress
• natural disasters

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A

• B

• C

• D

True or False: Limiting factors can be population dependent and population independent.

• True/Cierto
• False/Falso

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

As a population grows, it will most likely stop growing at what size?

• Growth limit
• Exponential limit
• Carrying Capacity
• It won't stop growing