Ch 4 L3

What pattern of population distribution does this school of fish represent?

• Random
• Uniform
• Clumped
• Knotted

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 fluctuate.
• It will decrease.
• It will stay the same.
• It will increase.

What growth pattern describes a population whose growth rate slows or stops following a period of exponential growth?

• logistic growth
• population growth
• exponential growth
• predator-prey cycle

What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

• exponential growth
• logistic growth 
• predator-prey cycle
• boom-bust curve

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 1.9 million
• 0.9 million
• 1.6 million
• 1.0 million

The number of organisms per certain area

• carrying capacity
• limiting factor
• total population
• population density

When organisms move out of the population, this is known as

• abandonment
• emmigration
• immigration
• succession

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

Angel was trying to explain carrying capacity to her mother.  Which of the following descriptions is accurate? Carrying capacity is :

• the maximum number of individuals that an ecosystem can sustain. 
•  the ability of an environment to accommodate a growing population. 
• the greatest number of individuals that an area can sustain over the long term. 
• the maximum number of species that can co-exist in an area.