Populations + Resources Quiz

all the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area

• ecosystem

• ecologist

• exosystem

• ecology

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living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria are called

• organisms

• organ systems

• organ music

• organizations

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A consumer population is

• a population that eats organisms from another population

• a population that is eaten by organisms from another population

• a population that uses up more energy than other populations

• a population that gets it's energy all from plants

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Which picture accurately shows a "population"?

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What causes a population size to increase?

• The number of births is greater than the number of deaths.

• The number of deaths is greater than the number of births.

• The number of births and the number of deaths is equal.

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What causes a population size to decrease?

• The number of births is greater than the number of deaths.

• The number of deaths is greater than the number of births.

• The number of births and the number of deaths is equal.

If the population size stays stable, does this mean that no organisms have been born or died?

• Yes, because if organisms were born or died that would change the number of organisms in the population.

• No, because if some organisms are born and the same number of organisms die, then the total population size can stay constant.

• Yes, because some organisms never die, so they don't need to reproduce.

• No, because all organisms will give birth and then die.

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Based on this graph, what must be true about the US honeybee population now?

• There are more births than deaths occurring.

• There are more deaths than births occurring.

• There is an equal number of deaths and births occurring.

• People don't like honeybees.

A large population of ducks lives in an area with a lake. In the last 40 years, the size of the duck population has stayed the same. What must be true about the duck population during the last 40 years?

• The number of ducks that were born was the same as the number of ducks that died.

• No ducks were born and no ducks died.

• Humans started protecting the duck population so they stopped dying.

• The ducks did not have any baby ducks during these years.

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When a populations is known to be STABLE, it:

• there are more deaths

• there are more births

• stays mostly the same, over time

• horses live there