4.5 Closure Activity

Key Question: Climate causes either logistic growth by limiting resources or exponential growth by providing abundant resources.

• It only causes logistic growth.

• It only causes exponential growth.

• It has no effect on population growth.

• It can cause logistic growth by limiting resources and exponential growth by providing abundant resources.

The population changes in buffalo are related to changes in climate.

• Yes

• No

Ecosystems include living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components. Which of the following best represents examples of both components?

• Animals and water

• Fungi and soil

• Plants and minerals

• Bacteria and plastic

Organisms interact within an ecosystem by engaging in various relationships such as competition, predation, and mutualism.

• Only competition

• Only mutualism

• Competition, predation, and mutualism

• None of the above

A population is a....

• A group of individuals of the same species living in a defined area.

• A single individual.

• A group of species living across different areas.

• A type of habitat.

The factors affecting population size include...

• Birth and death rates, immigration and emigration, and carrying capacity.

• Only birth rates.

• Only death rates.

• Environmental temperature only.

Identify the types of population growth:

• Exponential and Logistic growth

• Linear and Exponential growth

• Logistic and Linear growth

• Exponential and density-dependent growth

How does symbiosis contribute to biodiversity?

• By increasing the variety of species through mutual beneficial interactions

• By decreasing species interactions

• It has no effect on biodiversity

• By isolating species from each other

What does a food chain show in an ecosystem?

• The sequence of which organism eats which and the flow of energy and nutrients.

• The variety of species present in the ecosystem.

• The process of nutrient recycling in the ecosystem.

• The distribution of organisms based on habitat.

In a food chain, what does the arrow point from and to?

• From prey to predator

• From predator to prey

• From producers to decomposers

• From decomposers to producers