WorksheetsPopulation Dynamics
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
What causes competition to occur in an environment?
Good conditions make resources plentiful.
Organisms struggle for a limited resource.
Members of a population have different roles.
A population falls below the environment’s carrying capacity.
What is one way that cooperation helps lions to survive?
They hunt in a group to increase their likelihood of catching prey.
They all have a tan color that helps them blend into their environment.
They eat a variety of prey, including zebras, buffaloes, and wildebeest.
They live in prides of five to ten adult females and their young, and one or two adult males.
Without other changes to a population, which of the following will cause a population to increase in size?
The birth rate equals the death rate.
The birth rate is less than the death rate.
The birth rate is greater than the death rate.
The birth rate and the death rate both equal 0.
Which of the following is an example of an abiotic limiting factor on population size?
water availability
Availability of food
disease
predation
