Intro to Populations and Resources

What organism is the main focus of our Amplify unit story?

• Marine biologists

• Moon Jellies

• Orca Whales

• Giant Kelp

An ecosystem is made up of ______ .

• living things and their offspring

• nonliving things such as rocks and soil

• living things and nonliving things

• many types of animals

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What is the best definition of an organism?

• Many individuals of the same species living in the same area.

• All of the living and nonliving things in a particular area.

• An individual plant, animal, fungus, or single-celled life form.

• A creature that is large enough to see without using a microscope.

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.

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.

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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.

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

• 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 squirrels lives in a forest. In the last 50 years, the size of the squirrel population has stayed the same. What must be true about the squirrel population during the last 50 years?

• No squirrels were born and no squirrels died.

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

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

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

A population of tigers lives in Bangladesh. Over 50 years, the size of the tiger population increased. What best explains the increase in the size of the tiger population?

• A lot of tigers were born and none of them died.

• The tiger population is always increasing because no animal eats tigers.

• Fewer tigers were born than died.

• More tigers were born than died.

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