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WorksheetsPopulations 5.1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
A population that grows until it reaches its carrying capacity due to limiting factors has the shape of a/an
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In a particular area of an Arizona desert, there are 150 Saguaro cacti plants per square kilometer. Which population characteristic would the data be recorded as by a scientist who is studying this population?
age structure
growth rate
population density
geographic distribution
The movement of individuals within a population OUT OF a given area is called
Immigration
Carrying Capacity
Emigration
Population shift
What information does the range of a population provide?
The number of individuals in a population.
The area that a population inhabits.
The carrying capacity of a population.
The growth rate of a population.
When the birthrate in a population becomes higher that the death rate, the population growth
increases.
decreases.
levels off.
decreases, then levels off.
When individuals within a population reproduce at a constant rate, with no limiting factors, it produces a growth pattern called
logistic growth.
exponential growth.
growth density.
demographic growth.
If a bacterial population experiences uncontrolled growth (no limiting factors), the basic shape of the growth pattern (when graphed) would resemble a/an _____-shaped growth.
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In the image shown above, the growth pattern of a fruit fly population would be described as _________ growth.
exponential
limited
logistic
declining
The maximum # of individuals that an environment can support and sustain is known as the populations' ____ ______.
limiting growth
carrying capacity
death rate
migration pattern
The growth of a population can be measured by studying the birth rate, death rate and __________ patterns of the population.
distribution
abiotic
species
migration
