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WorksheetsPopulations Practice!
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
If a squirrel is eating the seeds out of a birdfeeder, what type of population reaction would that be?
Predation
Competition
Parasitism
Mutualism
Commensalism
An eagle catches a snake while flying through a field to eat. What type of relationship is this?
Predation
Competition
Parasitism
Mutualism
Commensalism
Barnacles will post themselves on the side of whales. The barnacles do not hurt the whale, but the barnacles gets food scraps from the whales. What type of relationship is this?
Predation
Competition
Parasitism
Mutualism
Comensalism
A water slug swims up to a fish, attaches itself to the fish, and sucks the fish's fluids through its skin. What type of relationship is this?
Predation
Competition
Parasitism
Mutualism
Commensalism
A bird plucks fleas off of a cow, benefitting both the bird and the cow. Also, a butterfly will pollinate a flower and get nutrients from the flower. What type of relationship is this?
Predation
Competition
Parasitism
Mutualism
Commensalism
What term describes a population will reach its maximum size that an ecosystem can support indefinitely?
NIche
Population
Growth Rate
Carrying Capacity
Items that will impact the growth of popualtion, like food, water, shelter, space, and weather, is known as a...
Carrying Capacity
Limiting Factor
Niche
Commensalism
What term shows the birth rate minus death rate?
Growth rate
Life Rate
Age rate
Express Rate
A group of the bears are living in a particular place at the same time.
Population
Ecosystem
Organism
Community
Which term will tell us the amount of penguins in a particular kilometer in the south pole?
Dispersion
Density
Size
Birth Rate
Many animals travel in a herd or a school. What type of dispersion pattern would that be?
Even
Random
Clumped/grouped
Terrestrial
Choose two: Which of the following would be the most likely cause of a large number of density independent deaths in a population?
Winter storms
Disease-causing insects
predators
Elevation
Normally, animals that are the smallest would have the highest reproductive potential. Due to that, which animal would have the highest reproductive potential?
Rabbit
Elephant
Human
Horse
Which of the following would cause competition between the various members in a forest?
A decrease in food supply
An increase in temperature
A new predator shows up.
Which letter represents exponential growth?
a
b
c
z
Which letter on the graph represents logistic/stable growth?
A
B
C
Z
What is the carrying capacity of this population?
100
250
500
2000
We distributed ages on a graph in a specific population at a specific time. What type of graph are we talking about?
Demographic Transition Model
Life Expectancy Graph
Age structure graph
People will move into and out of a population - what is this referred to?
Arable Land
Life expectancy
Infrastructure
Migration
What is the study of population called?
Demography
Survivorship
Urbanization
Infrastructure
We use this land to grow crops
brable land
arable land
secondary land
old farm land
Average number of years a person is likely to live.
Demographic Transition
Life Expectancy
Survivorship
Urbanization
The percentage of members of a group who are likely to survive to a given age
Demography
Survivorship
Life expectancy
Infrastructure
Buildings, schools, restaurants, facilities, services, and roads are considered....
Infrastructure
Demographic transition
Age structure
Developed countries
We looked at a graph that described how changes in a population will occur. What is that graph called?
Urbanization
Age structure graphs
Demographic Transition Model
What do we call movement from rural areas to urban areas?
Urbanization
Survivorship
Age Structure
Arable Land
An increase in water-borne diseases could possibly be alleviated (reduced) by
Adequate sewage treatment facilities
sufficient fuelwood
very rapid growth of large cities
Why did the population increase/double?
high birth rates and lowered death rates
Low birth rates and high death rates
High birth rates and high death rates
The Hunter-Gatherer period
Which of the following is a reason that wood is considered a limited resource in many developing countries?
Wood is used in place of money to buy food.
People cut down trees faster than they can grow to boil water in order to purify it.
The excess wood is burned.
Excess wood is used to construct shantytowns.
A country with an age distribution like that shown in diagram B is most likely a country that...
Is experiencing rapid growth
Is experiencing a slow to no population growth
Is experiencing a high birth rate
Is a developing country
A country that would best represent diagram B is...
United States
Mexico
India
China
1. In diagram B, approximately what percent of this countries males and females are under age 15?
8%
16%
24%
50%
Look at the age structure graph. Click the stages that has a stable/unchanging population growth.
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Back in time (like in stage 1), death rates were VERY high. Why were they so high?
Infants died due to disease.
Lots of elderly people were dying.
The reproductive age of females was 9 during that time.
In a demographic transition model, what is the FIRST thing to decrease?
Average family sizes
Level of education
Demographic Stability
Death Rates
Why do you think the population grew during stage 2?
Many revolutions were introduced, bringing health, medical, and industrial advances.
Death rates are decreasing.
Birth rates are still high.
All of the above.
If we have individuals moving into a population, we call it ____________, but if people are moving from cities to neighborhoods, it's called ___________.
Immigration/Mutualism
Immigration/Suburban Sprawl
Industrialization/Exponential Growth
Suburban Sprawl/Immigration
