Population Ecology

The largest amount that an environment can support

• limiting factor

• carrying capacity

• ecosystem

• population

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environmental factors that cause a population to stop growing or decrease in size

• carrying capacity

• limiting factor

• ecosystem

• community

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Which of these is an example of a limiting factor

• food

• predators

• weather conditions

• disease

• all of the above

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If a disease that destroyed oak trees came through an ecosystem, what would happen to the acorn eating squirrel population?

• nothing - it would stay the same

• the squirrel population would increase

• the squirrel population would decrease

• none of the above

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When a population continues to grow past its carrying capacity, the population will go extinct.

• True

• False

A mouse is eaten by an eagle; the mouse is prey.

• True

• False

If the number of births is greater than 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 is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 1.8 million
• 1.25 million
• 1.6 million
• 1.o million

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

• Continues to grow
• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity
• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

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If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then the population will mostly likely...

• stay the same
• decrease
• increase

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