Population and Population Density

Which best describes the graph of logistic growth?

• S-shaped

• J-shaped

• W-shaped

• U-shaped

What is the largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term?

• carrying capacity

• emigration

• immigration

• survivorship

What term is used to define anything that regulates the size of a population?

• density

• a limiting factor

• carrying capacity

• biodiversity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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These organisms typically live in unstable, unpredictable environments & are able to reproduce rapidly (exponentially). They do not take care of their young & are subject to predation.

• k-strategist

• r-strategist

• m-strategist

• s-strategist

Processes that remove individuals from a population.

• death and emigration

• birth and immigration

number of organisms per unit area/volume

• carrying capacity

• limiting factor

• total population

• population density

If the number of births is greater than the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

• It will increase.

• It will decrease.

• It will stay the same.

• It will fluctuate.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support...  

• carrying capacity

• population crash

• lag phase

• mutualism

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A group of the same species of organism living in the same place​

• Hang out

• Pod

• Density

• Population

What happens to a population with a lack of limiting factors (predators, disease, competition, and other factors that decrease population growth).​

• Shrinks

• Immigration

• Indefinite growth

• Emigration

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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