APES Unit 3 Review Populations

Which of the following variables increase population size?

• Deaths

• Emigration

• Immigration

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Which type of survivorship curve represents an r-selected species?

• Type I survivorship curve

• Type II survivorship curve

• Type III survivorship curve

Which type of survivorship curve represents an k-selected species?

• Type I survivorship curve

• Type II survivorship curve

• Type III survivorship curve

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

Which type of survivorship curve represents animals that have constant mortality?

• Type I

• Type II

• Type III

Which type of survivorship curve represents organisms that produce many offspring that mainly die early in life

• Type I

• Type II

• Type III

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4

Which of the following is not a characteristic of rapidly growing populations?

• Short generation time

• Long length of reproductive life

• Having few offspring

• Reproduce early in life

A J-curve represents

• exponential growth

• logistic growth

• no growth

When a population goes over the carrying capacity this is known as

• oscillation

• overshoot

• dieback

• exponential

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NGSS.HS-LS2-1

Which of the following pairs of indicators best reflects the availability of health care in a country?

• Crude death rate and growth rate

• Crude death rate and crude birth rate

• Growth rate and life expectancy

• Infant mortality rate and life expectancy

Populations whose age structure diagrams are narrower at the bottom than at the top have

• high death rates

• the same proportion of individuals in each age group

• a declining population

• a high growth rate

• all of the above