Ecological Dynamics

What type of population growth is shown in the graph?  

• logistic growth

• logical growth

• exponential growth

• density-dependent growth

According to the graph, what is causing the deer population to decrease

• They got sick

• The wolf population is decreasing

• The wolf population increased

• They ran out of food

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Predator population lags behind prey population because......

• Increase in predators leads to decrease in prey

• Increase in predators leads to increase in prey

• Increase in predators leads to decrease in producers

• Increase in producers leads to increase in prey

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What would the carrying capacity of this graph be

• 530

• 400

• 500

• 480

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What happens if a population grows past its carrying capacity?

• The population keeps growing

• The population starts to die off

• The entire species will go extinct

• The carrying capacity just increases

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At point B, the population has reached _______ and will begin to ________

• overshoot; dieback

• dieback; carrying capacity

• exponential growth; dieback

• maximum; die-off

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Nesting birds often space themselves evenly from other nests. This pattern is called

• clumped dispersion.

• uniform dispersion.

• random dispersion

• scatter dispersion

Which of the following will increase the size of a population?

• emigration and births

• immigration and deaths

• immigration and births

• emigration and deaths

What type of growth is shown on this graph?

• logistic (S-Curve)

• exponential (J-Curve)

• Linear

• density-independent

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Which of the following is a density-independent limiting factor?

• natural disaster

• predation

• disease

• parasitism