Population

What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

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

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

What do you call a period of rapid growth?

• exponential growth
• logistic growth
• emigration
• predator-prey cycle

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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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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

All of the following are limiting factors EXCEPT

• food
• soil
• space
• weather conditions

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An animal that hunts an other animal to eat it, is called a

• predator
• prey
• herbivore
• decomposer

All members of one species in a certain area.

• Population
• Limiting Factors
• Immigration
• Birth Rate

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Which statement best explains section X?

• competition does not occur between members of different species in the same habitat

• energy is used for interbreeding between members of different species

• the population has reached the carrying capacity of its environment

• a predator recycles the remains of dead organisms

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what are the 3 factors that can increase or decrease the size of a population (choose 3)

• number of births

• number of deaths

• immigration & emigration

• geographic distribution

• population dispersion

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