How populations change in size 8.1

Match the following

• density dependent

• relative distribution of individuals

• density

• deaths caused by disease

• limiting resource

• number of individuals per unit area

• dispersion

• water, sunlight, or nutrients for plants

• territory

• example of indirect competition for

  resources

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Which of the following is one of the main properties used to describe a

population?

• number of individuals

• color of individuals

• number of species

• kind of adaptations

For a population’s growth rate to be zero

• more deaths than births must occur.

• more births than deaths must occur.

• no births can occur.

• the average number of births and deaths must be the same.

8. Exponential growth occurs when a population

• exceeds the habitat’s carrying capacity.

• is competing with another species.

• grows increasingly faster.

• breeds with another species.e

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Which of the following limits a population’s biotic potential?

• a minimum number of offspring each pair can produce

• a maximum number of offspring each individual can produce

• the number of interactions each individual has

• the size of offspring each individual can produce

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Which of the following limits a population’s growth?

• carrying capacity of its habitat

• natural disasters

• severe weather

• all of the above

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Change in Population Size = ...

• Birth rate

  /

  Death rate

• Birth rate * Death rate

• Birth rate - Death rate

• Birth rate + Death rate