Population Ecology Quiz 1 SY 2024

If the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

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

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

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

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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

• emigration
• abandonment
• immigration
• succession

A population is...

• A group of one species in one area
• Multiple species that live in one area
• All of the living and nonliving things in an area
• None of these

What type of growth is represented behind?

• exponential
• logistics
• a good kind
• representative

Which of the following are density dependent factors?

• competition for resources

• predation

• disease

• natural disasters

The highest population an environment can support is called

• a limiting factor

• exponential growth

• carrying capacity

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

• density-independent

• density dependent