Population and Intro to Ecology Practice Quiz 2023

A group of emperor penguins living together on a particular beach is an example of...

• ecosystem
• community
• species
• population

What factor describes when populations increase because animals are moving into a population?

• Emigration
• Limiting Factors
• Immigration
• Exponential Growth

What does the graph represent?

• Emigration
• Exponential growth
• Immigration
• Logistic Growth

What does the graph represent?

• Emigration
• Exponential growth
• Immigration
• Logistic Growth

Which limiting factor is independent of the number of individuals in a population or their density?

• competition
• parasitism/disease
• stress
• natural disasters

The growth of a population is shown in the graph below. Which letter indicates the carrying capacity of the environment for this population?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Ten breeding pairs of rabbits are introduced onto an island with no natural predators and a good supply of water and food. What will most likely happen to the rabbit population initially (first)?

• It will remain relatively constant due to equal birth and death rates

• It will increase but then level out (logistic growth).

• It will increase at an increasing rate (exponential growth).

• It will decrease.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What does abiotic mean?

• living

• never alive

• dead

• one biotic

What type of growth model is this?

• exponential growth model
• logistic growth model
• linear growth model
• Increasing growth model

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

The average number of people per square mile is an example of a

• Birth rate

• Land area

• population density

• population size

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4