Unit 1 Formative 1

The largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term is...

• carrying capacity

• emigration

• immigration

• population density

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What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

• around 500

• more than 800

• less than 300

• around 700

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Which of the following would INCREASE the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• increase in predators
• disease
• increase in available food
• drought

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What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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Not living, or produced by nonliving things

• Abiotic

• Biotic

Living, or produced by living things

• Abiotic

• Biotic

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Exponential Growth occurs when-

• populations have plenty of food/space

• home to keystone species

• have few evasive species in a habitat

• have little to no competition or predators

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Logistic population growth can be described as

• growth when resources are limited

• a s-shaped curve

• reaching carrying capacity

• all of the above

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What type of growth is demonstrated in the graph?

• Exponential

• Carrying capacity

• Linear

• Negative

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Logistic growth displays a ____-shaped curve which indicates a population size capped at carrying capacity.

• J

• S

• C

• V