Ecology Test 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

• biome

• mutualism

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 2.0 million

• 1.0 million

• 1.6 million

• 0.5 million

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What is the approximate carrying capacity of Paramecium aurelia grown alone?

• 100

• 200

• 300

• 450

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If a disease destroying wheat plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the bird population that feed off of the wheat in the the field ?

• The bird population would stay the same

• The bird population would increase

• The bird population would decrease

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

• Continues to grow

• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity

• The population will go completely extinct due to lack of resources

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Which limiting factor is density independent?

• water

• food

• natural disasters

Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are called

• limiting factors

• species

• biotic

• none of the above

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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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Where do all life forms get their energy?

• Earth's Core
• Water
• Plants
• The Sun

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