Population Ecology

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What factor describes when populations increase because animals are moving into a population?

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Immigration

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What factor describes when populations decrease because animals are moving out of a population? Options: Emigration, Limiting Factors, Immigration, Exponential Growth

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Emigration

Front

What does the graph represent? Options: Emigration, Exponential growth, Immigration, Logistic Growth

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Exponential growth

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What causes growth to stop in the 3rd phase of logistic growth? Options: Emigration, Immigration, Exponential Growth, Carrying Capacity

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Carrying Capacity

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True or False: Limiting factors can be population dependent and population independent.

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True

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Which limiting factor would increase due to the number of individuals in a population? Options: Unusual weather, Natural disaster, Births, Disease

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Disease

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Which limiting factor is independent of the number of individuals in a population? Options: competition, parasitism/disease, stress, natural disasters

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natural disasters

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Which of the following DOES NOT help determine patterns in human population growth? Options: age structure, births, deaths, limiting factors

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limiting factors

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What type of factor has an increasing impact as the population size increases? Options: density-independent, density-dependent, cohort effect, survivorship factor

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density-dependent

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What type of growth model is shown in image A?

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Logistic