3.1-3.5 Populations Review

What factor describes when populations decrease because animals are moving out of a population?

• Emigration

• Limiting Factors

• Immigration

• Exponential 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?

• competition
• parasitism/disease
• stress
• natural disasters

What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which factor is a density-dependent limiting factor on the population of a species?

• seasonal variation
• natural disasters
• unusual weather
• predation

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

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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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are often __________.

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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A disease wipes out most of the rabbit population in a forest. What type of limiting factor would this be?

• density-independent

• density dependent

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