Population Ecology Quiz

What are the ways ecologists study populations?

• Hurricanes, droughts, floods, wildfires

• Geographic range, density and distribution, growth rate, age structure

• Births, emigration, deaths, immigration

• Competition, parasitism and disease, stress from overcrowding, predation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the area inhabited by a population called?

• Population density

• Geographic range

• Growth rate

• Population distribution

What is the number of individuals that can be found per unit area called?

• Geographic range

• Population density

• Population distribution

• Growth rate

What is the way individuals are spaced out called?

• Growth rate

• Geographic range

• Population distribution

• Population density

What represents a growth rate when the population size is unchanged?

• Growth rate < 0

• Growth rate > 0

• Growth rate = 0

• Exponential growth

What are the factors that affect population growth?

• Hurricanes, droughts, floods, wildfires

• Competition, parasitism and disease, stress from overcrowding, predation

• Geographic range, density and distribution, growth rate, age structure

• Births, emigration, deaths, immigration

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What happens during exponential growth?

• Population stabilizes at carrying capacity

• Population size is decreasing

• Population size is growing

• Population is rapidly increasing

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

What happens during logistic growth?

• Population stabilizes at carrying capacity

• Population is rapidly increasing

• Population size is decreasing

• Population size is growing

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS2-1

What is the term for the maximum population size that an environment can support?

• Population density

• Carrying capacity

• Population distribution

• Geographic range

What is the term for the movement of individuals into an area?

• Emigration

• Immigration

• Population density

• Growth rate