Biology Population Growth Quiz Review

What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

• exponential growth
• logistic growth 
• predator-prey cycle
• boom-bust curve

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

Plants and animals that are not native to a habitat (nonindigenous)...

• predators
• biological magnification
• invasive species
• prey

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

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

Type of growth that occurs under ideal conditions?

• predator-prey cycle
• logistic
• exponential

Type of growth that occurs when disease and parasites are present...

• exponential
• J-shaped
• predator-prey
• logistic

Which limiting factor is density independent?

• water

• food

• natural disasters

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

Which of the following is a density dependent factor?

• volcanic eruption

• earthquake

• disease

• hurricane

Logistic population growth can be described as

• growth when resources are limited

• a s-shaped curve

• reaching carrying capacity

• all of the above