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Population Growth

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What kind of factor: disease?
a)
density-independent
b)
density-dependent
2.
What kind of factor: resource scarcity?
a)
density-independent
b)
density-dependent
3.
What kind of factor: flood?
a)
density-independent
b)
density-dependent
4.
What kind of factor: predation?
a)
density-independent
b)
density-dependent
5.
What kind of factor: temperature?
a)
density-independent
b)
density-dependent
6.
What kind of factor resists a population to cause a carrying capacity?
a)
density-independent
b)
density-dependent
7.

What is the abbreviation for carrying capacity?

a)

r

b)

C

c)

K

d)

a

8.

Organisms whose population is regulated by density independent factors

a)

r-selected

b)

K-selected

9.
Logistic population growth leads to this kind of graph
a)
S curve
b)
J curve
c)
M curve
d)
W curve
10.
Exponential population growth leads to this kind of graph
a)
S curve
b)
J curve
c)
M curve
d)
W curve
11.
What is the carrying capacity of this population?
a)
100
b)
200
c)
300
d)
400
12.
This population would be characterized as which kind of species?
a)
r-selected
b)
S-selected
c)
K-selected
d)
C-selected
13.

Organisms whose population is regulated by density dependent factors

a)

r-selected

b)

K-selected

14.

Which of these populations would be most likely regulated by competition for food?

a)

lions

b)

rabbits

c)

spiders

d)

dandelions

15.

An organism that exhibits high parental care would be likely considered

a)

r-selected

b)

K-selected

c)

Type 3 survivorship

16.

Intrinsic growth rate is also known as

a)

logistic growth

b)

population expansionism

c)

K-selected species

d)

biotic potential

17.

Two species of fish hunt the same prey in the same bay, one of them declines over time until it is no longer in the bay. This is an example of

a)

overshoot

b)

competitive exclusion

c)

resource partitioning

d)

community partitioning

18.

The population around time 15 could be characterized as having done which of these?

a)

overshoot

b)

extended population

c)

overreach

d)

population exceptionalism