Population Ecology

Emigration is

• the movement out of an area

• the movement into an area

• movement in and out of an area

• migration

Why don't populations grow indefinitely?

• limiting factors

• only biotic factors

• only abiotic factors

• none of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the carrying capacity mean?

• The number of individuals an area can carry

• the number of births

• The number of deaths an area has

• not sure

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

(Im)migration is ...

• the movement into an area

• The movement out of an area

• The migration process

• exponential graph

One of the factors that can change the size of population is....

• Name of schools

• Number of dezs

• Jobs

• Numbers of births

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Why don't populations grow indefinitely?

• limiting factors

• only biotic factors

• only abiotic factors

• none of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

the number of people in a defined area such as a square kilometre

• population density

• birth rate

• death rate

• population

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Why would an area be sparsely populated?

• lack of natural resources

• land is covered with ice

• land cannot be developed

• all of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Determine if the following are abiotic or biotic.

Groups:

(a) Abiotic

,

(b) Biotic

• Dog

• Sun

• Rock

• Atmosphere

• Flowers

• Elephant

• Rain

• Cheetah

• Grass

• River

Tags

Abiotic or Biotic

6.10.5

Determine if the following are a habitat or a niche.

Groups:

(a) Habitat

,

(b) Niche

• Earthworms decomposing organic matter

• Forest

• Cats eating rodents near a barn

• Pond

• Ocean

• Wolves eating elk (managing the elk population)

• Bees pollinating flowers

• Meadow

• Oak tree turning sunlight into organic molecules

• Desert

Tags

habitat and niche