APES Unit 3 Review Questions

The rule of 70 can be used to determine a population’s doubling time. Doubling time is a measure of the

• population growth rate

• environmental impact of each individual in a population

• length of time an individual born in a population is expected to live

• average age of the first reproductive event per 1,000 women in a country

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APES.EIN.1.C

The graph shows the three types of survivorship curves over time.

Which of the following is a characteristic of an organism that displays a Type III survivorship curve?

• The organism has a fairly constant mortality rate over time.

• The organism reaches reproductive maturity after many years.

• The organism produces large numbers of offspring every time it reproduces.

• The organism provides constant parental care to its offspring for several years.

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APES.ERT.3.C

The graph shows the three types of survivorship curves over time.

Which of the following is a characteristic of an organism that displays a Type III survivorship curve?

• The organism has a fairly constant mortality rate over time.

• The organism reaches reproductive maturity early in life.

• The organism produces only a few number of offspring every time it reproduces.

• The organism provides constant parental care to its offspring for several years.

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APES.ERT.3.C

The graph shows the three types of survivorship curves over time.

Which of the following is a characteristic of an organism that displays a Type II survivorship curve?

• The organism has a fairly constant mortality rate over time.

• The organism reaches reproductive maturity after many years.

• The organism produces large numbers of offspring every time it reproduces.

• The organism provides constant parental care to its offspring for several years.

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APES.ERT.3.C

When a population size tends to fluctuate around the environment's carrying capacity, it is

• Irruptive

• Stable

• Irregular

• Decaying

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APES.ERT.3.D

APES.ERT.3.E

Of the following, which is an example of a density-independent population control?

• Limited food

• Limited space

• Earthquakes

• Parasitism

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APES.EIN.1

APES.EIN.1.C

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APES.ERT.3.F

When a population's growth adjusts to the environment's carrying capacity (K), it is known as

• A species's biotic potential

• A population crash

• Exponential growth

• Logistic growth

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When a population exceeds the environments carrying capacity (K),

• It can suffer a sudden population crash.

• It enters the exponential growth phase.

• It overcomes environmental resistance.

• Its age structure becomes heavily weighted toward older ones.

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When the individual of a population are most likely to be found in groups, this is known as

• Uniform dispersion

• Exponential growth

• Random dispersion

• Clumping

As opposed to a K-selected species, an r-selected species usually has

• numerous relatively small offspring

• offspring that tend to survive to reproductive age

• a population that stays close to the environment's K

• high parental care of offspring

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