Populations

Which of the following best describes a population?

• members of the same species living in the same place at the same time
• all the red birds in an area
• all types of organisms living in the same place
• all members of the same species

Which factor contributed most to the exponential growth of the human population?

• more food, better hygiene
• higher birth rates
• higher fertility rates
• increased immigration

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Exponential growth is slow and gradual.

• True
• False

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An individual living thing is a/an __________.

• habitat
• ecosystem
• organism
• population

The average number of people per square mile or, shrimp in an aquarium, students in a classroom)

• population distribution

• population density

• urbanization

• population rate

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

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

• a limiting measure
• a limiting factor
• factorization
• materialization of precipitation

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In a forest ecosystem, which of the following is the best example of a limiting factor for a rabbit population?

• Squirrel Population
• Sunlight
• Grass available

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