If the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

• It will increase.
• It will decrease.
• It will stay the same.
• It will fluctuate.

What growth pattern describes a population whose growth rate slows or stops following a period of exponential growth?

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

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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

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What do you call a period of rapid growth?

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

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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Type of growth that occurs under ideal conditions?

• predator-prey cycle
• logistic
• exponential

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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All members of one species in a certain area.

• Population
• Limiting Factors
• Immigration
• Birth Rate

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