Unit 9: Ecology & Human Impacts - REVIEW

The largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term is...

• carrying capacity

• emigration

• immigration

• population density

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What happens if a population grows past its carrying capacity?

• The population keeps growing

• The population starts to die off

• The entire species will go extinct

• The carrying capacity just increases

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What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

• around 500

• more than 800

• less than 300

• around 700

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Excessive amounts of rain caused a flood in the southwest United States that resulted in substantial amounts of deaths in the rabbit population? This situation is an example of a density _____________ limiting factor.

• density-independent
• density-dependent
• density- too high
• density- too low

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Limiting factors which impact the size of a population no matter how large that population is.

• Density Independent Limiting Factors
• Density Dependent Limiting Factors
• Carrying Capacity
• Exponential Growth

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Which of the following is the correct order from most specific to least specific in ecology.

• Biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, individual

• Individual, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere

• Individual, community, population, ecosystem, biosphere

• Biosphere, ecosystem, population, community, individual

All living things or organisms in an ecosystem are

• None

• biotic factors

• abiotic factors

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What does the graph represent?

• Emigration
• Exponential growth
• Immigration
• Logistic Growth

What does the graph represent?

• Emigration
• Exponential growth
• Immigration
• Logistic Growth

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Logistic growth has 3 phases. In Phase 1, the population grows rapidly. In Phase 2, population grows slowly. In Phase 3, growth stops. What causes growth to stop in the 3rd phase of logistic growth?

• Emigration
• Immigration
• Exponential Growth
• Carrying Capacity

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