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Chapter 4 Environmental Science Test Review

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What factor describes when populations increase because animals are moving into a population?
a)
Emigration
b)
Limiting Factors
c)
Immigration
d)
Exponential Growth
2.
What factor describes when populations decrease because animals are moving out of a population?
a)
Emigration
b)
Limiting Factors
c)
Immigration
d)
Exponential Growth
3.
What does the graph represent?
a)
Emigration
b)
Exponential growth
c)
Immigration
d)
Logistic Growth
4.

What does the graph represent?

a)

Emigration

b)

Exponential growth

c)

Immigration

d)

Logistic Growth

5.
Logistic growth has 3 phases. In Phase 1, the population grows rapidly. In Phase 2, population grows slowly. In Phase 3, growth stops. What causes growth to stop in the 3rd phase of logistic growth?
a)
Emigration
b)
Immigration
c)
Exponential Growth
d)
Carrying Capacity
6.
Which limiting factor is independent of the number of individuals in a population?
a)
competition
b)
parasitism/disease
c)
stress
d)
natural disasters
7.
Which limiting factor would increase due to the number of individuals in a population?
a)
Unusual weather
b)
Natural disaster
c)
Births
d)
Disease
8.

Which of the following describes a population that is distributed evenly across an area?

a)

random

b)

uniform

c)

clumped

d)

crowded

9.

The picture shown is of the Monteverde Cloud Forest. Which of the following is a biotic factor visible in the image?

a)

rocks

b)

golden toads

c)

water

d)

plants

10.

The largest population size a given environment can sustainably support is known as its

a)

limiting capacity.

b)

logistic limit.

c)

carrying capacity.

d)

biotic potential.

11.
If the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?
a)
It will increase.
b)
It will decrease.
c)
It will stay the same.
d)
It will fluctuate.
12.
Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support...  
a)
carrying capacity
b)
population crash
c)
lag phase
d)
mutualism
13.
Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are often __________.
a)
limiting factors
b)
wet
c)
messy
d)
found in rocks
14.
Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.
a)
a limiting measure
b)
a limiting factor
c)
factorization
d)
materialization of precipitation
15.
In a forest ecosystem, which of the following is the best example of a limiting factor for a rabbit population?
a)
Squirrel Population
b)
Sunlight
c)
Grass available
16.
When organisms move out of the population, this is known as
a)
emigration
b)
abandonment
c)
immigration
d)
succession
17.
A population is...
a)
A group of one species in one area
b)
Multiple species that live in one area
c)
All of the living and nonliving things in an area
d)
None of these
18.

Which of the following are density dependent factors?

a)

competition for resources

b)

predation

c)

disease

d)

natural disasters

19.

Which of the following are examples of a density independent factors?

a)

forest fire

b)

seasonal cycles

c)

storms

d)

disease

20.
Which will add more organisms to a population? 
a)
5 animals die
b)
0 animals are born
c)
3 animals immigrate to the population
d)
2 animals emmigrate from the population
21.
Nesting birds often space themselves evenly from other nests. This pattern is called
a)
clumped dispersion.
b)
uniform dispersion.
c)
random dispersion
d)
scatter dispersion
22.
What is the best definition of a population?
a)
The number of plants and animals there are in an area
b)
The number of different species in one place at one time
c)
The number of individuals of one species living in the same place
d)
The total number of all organisms in an ecosystem
23.

The average number of individuals of the same species per unit of surface area at a given time is the ……………………

a)

population density

b)

population growth

c)

population birth rate

d)

population size

24.
Which kind of dispersion is #1?
a)
clumped
b)
random
c)
uniform
25.
Populations of different organisms living in an area
a)
species
b)
community
c)
niche
d)
biome
26.

All of the living and nonliving things in an area make up a

a)

community

b)

habitat

c)

species

d)

ecosystem

27.

What is a community?

a)

All of the living things in an area

b)

All of the animals of the same species

c)

A really funny TV show

d)

all of the nonliving things in an ecosystem

28.

All of the nonliving things in an ecosystem are called

a)

biotic factors

b)

dead things

c)

abiotic factors

d)

decomposers

29.

What does population density measure?

a)

The total size of a population

b)

Different species in a population

c)

Whether a population is growing

d)

How many organisms are in one area

30.
all the parts of Earth that life exists: water, land, atmosphere
a)
Biosphere
b)
Heterotroph
c)
Biome
d)
Primary Producer
31.
group of different populations that live in the same area
a)
Community
b)
Population
c)
Autotroph
d)
Species
32.
all of the organisms that live together in a place and their physical environment
a)
Ecosystem
b)
Ecology
c)
Abiotic factor
d)
Biosphere
33.
non-living part of environment
a)
Abiotic factor
b)
Community
c)
Primary Producer
d)
Biotic factor
34.

Plants and animals are examples of __________ factors in an ecosystem.

a)

Biotic

b)

Abiotic

35.

A _________________ is made up of different living organisms that are not all the same species.

a)

Population

b)

Carrying Capacity

c)

Community

d)

Abiotic Factor

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