Carrying Capacity

Looking at the graph. What would you estimate the carrying capacity to be?

• 100

• 200

• 150

• 175

• 125

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Look at the graph. When does the graph leave Phase I and enter Phase II?

• 6 years

• 10 years

• 22 years

• 1 year

Look at the graph. What growth pattern is being exhibited?

• Exponential Growth

• Logistic Growth

• Realistic Growth

• Capacity Growth

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Look at the graph. About when does the population leave Phase II and enter Phase III?

• 6 years

• 22 years

• 13 years

• 30 years

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Look at the graph. What do you think would happen if 20 bears were added to the population?

• Approximately 20 bears would die or leave the population

• The environment would adapt to having 20 additional bears within it

• The environment will not be able to support having 20 bears, and catastrophe will strike. The bears will go extinct

• Nothing will happen in the slightest

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Look at the graph. What could you say about the carrying capacity?

• It was initially around 200, then something occurred, and it fell to around 100

• It was initially around 100, then something occurred, and it rose to 200

• It was initially around 175, then something occurred, and it fell to around 100

• It was initially around 100, then something occurred, and it rose to 175

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Look at the graph. What is one of the possibilities that could have happened?

• A large number of bears were added into the population, increasing competition and decreasing the population

• A natural disaster could have occurred, such as a flood, where the environment and population recovered quickly

• Something occurred creating a steady decline of the population, like deforestation

• A parasite or disease may have been introduced that caused the carrying capacity to be permanently reduced

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When the population density is above the carrying capacity, the population will...

• Increase

• Decrease

• Remain the same

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There is a permanent increase in all the necessary resources for a population..

• The population will temporarily increase, before returning to the initial carrying capacity

• The population will temporarily decrease, before returning to the initial carrying capacity

• The population will permanently decrease, establishing a new, lower, carrying capacity

• The population will permanently increase, establishing a new, higher, carrying capacity

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The introduction of a new predator may...

• Increase the carrying capacity

• Decrease the carrying capacity

• Keep the carrying capacity the same

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