Carrying Capacity Review

What growth model has an J-shaped curve?

• Logistic

• Exponential

What growth model has an S-shaped curve?

• Logistic

• Exponential

When a population has unlimited resources, and it continues to grow to its FULL LIVING POTENTIAL, it is called

• Peak

• Top shelf

• Resource controlled limit

• Biotic potential

factors that affect a population depending on its size​

- these include food, predation, parasitism, and disease​

• Density-Dependent factor

• Density-Independent factors

affect all populations similarly regardless of population size.​ Examples include: natural disasters, rapid climate changes (drought or floods), and human activity and disturbances ​

• Density-Dependent factors

• Density-Independent factors

Which population has the greatest potential for rapid growth?

• Populations with a large number of middle aged individuals

• Older populations

• Populations with large numbers of young offspring

• None of these

Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

• a limiting measure
• a limiting factor
• factorization
• materialization of precipitation

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What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 1.8 million
• 1.25 million
• 1.6 million
• 1.o million

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When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?

• Continues to grow
• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity
• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

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What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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