QUIZ 2: Population Growth

Which of the following describes a population?

• The total number of people, animals, and plants in New York City

• The total number of apartments in New York City

• The total number of people living in New York City

• The amount of water in the Hudson River

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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If a disease was destroying wheat plants, what would happen to the bird population that feed off of the wheat?

• 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

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An environmental factor such as amount of space, disease, and availability of mates that depends on the number of members in a population is called

• density- dependent factor

• density- independent factor

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Which of the following is a density dependent factor?

• volcanic eruption

• earthquake

• disease

• hurricane

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FILL IN THE BLANK: When a population starts to reach its carrying capacity, it is showing _____ growth