Population Ecology Quiz

The number of individuals per unit area for a given species is known as

• Carrying capacity

• Logistic growth

• Population density

• Population growth rate

Density-independent limiting factors include

• Predation

• Competition

• Hurricanes

• Parasitism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A limiting factor that depends on population size is called

• Density-dependent limiting factor

• Density-independent limiting factor

• Predator-prey relationship

• Parasitic relationship

What is the number of individuals living in a given area?

• Population density

• Symbiosis

• Carrying capacity

• Limiting factors

Which of the following are examples of a density independent factors?

• forest fire

• seasonal cycles

• storms

• disease

Match the following levels of classification to their definitions:

• Community

• All the different living things

• Ecosystem

• All the same species

• Organism

• 1 individual

• Population

• All the biotic and abiotic things

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

An environmental factor such as predation, disease, and competition that depends on the number of members in a population per unit

• dispersion
• density- independent factor
• density- dependent factor
• population growth rate

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Match the following

• Population density

• The size of a population of bears in a certain area

• Population size

• The number of trout in a stream

• Population dispersion

• How people or organisms are spread out in an area

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Match the picture with the type of population distribution

• Clumped distribution

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• Random distribution

• 
• uniform distribution

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Carrying capacity is the ​ (a)   number of organisms that can survive in an area based on the available ​ (b)   , such as food and water.

• maximum
• resources
• minimum
• predators

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1