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Carrying Capacity and Population Overshoot

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the carrying capacity of the idealized population graph?

a)

1000

b)

8000

c)

800

d)

600

2.

This may cause a population to increase

a)

increase of food supply

b)

removal of predators

c)

removal of disease

d)

all of these

3.
If a disease destroying barley plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the barley eating bird population in the the field ?
a)
The bird population would stay the same
b)
The bird population would infinitely increase
c)
The bird population would decrease
4.

If the carrying capacity of a predator decreases, what will happen to the carrying capacity of the prey?

a)

Will Increase

b)

Will Decrease

c)

Will stay the same

5.

What are factors that affect carrying capacity?

a)

Biotic only

b)

Biotic and abiotic

c)

Depends on the ecosystem

d)

Abiotic only

6.

'B' represents...

a)

overshoot of the carrying capacity

b)

logarithmic growth

c)

exponential growth

d)

lag phase

7.

What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

a)

around 500

b)

more than 800

c)

less than 300

d)

around 700

8.

When death rate is equal to birth rate...

a)

population increases

b)

population decreases

c)

population stays the same.

d)

population rapidly increases then becomes stable

9.

When birth rate is high and death rate is low...

a)

population increases

b)

population decreases

c)

population stays the same

d)

all of these

10.

All the biotic and abiotic factors and the interactions among them in a given area

a)

Interdependent Relationship

b)

Carrying Capacity

c)

Ecosystem

d)

Competition

11.

What type of growth is demonstrated in the graph?

a)

Exponential

b)

Carrying capacity

c)

Linear

d)

Negative

12.

Which of the following demonstrates population growth when there is limited available water in an area?

a)
b)
c)
13.
All the members of one type of species in a specific area.
a)
habitat
b)
community
c)
population
d)
ecosystme
14.

If there are 25 rabbits living in a 5 acre area, what is the population density of the rabbits?

a)

125 rabbits per acre

b)

30 rabbits per acre

c)

20 rabbits per acre

d)

5 rabbits per acre

15.

What does the straight yellow line represent? What is it called?

a)

exponential growth, E line

b)

fluctuation, K line

c)

carrying capacity, K line

d)

environment resistance, R line

16.

What happens if a population grows past its carrying capacity?

a)

The population keeps growing

b)

The population starts to die off

c)

The entire species will go extinct

d)

The carrying capacity just increases

17.

The largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term is...

a)

carrying capacity

b)

emigration

c)

immigration

d)

population density

18.

Something that regulates the size of a population is called...

a)

a limiting measure

b)

a limiting factor

c)

carrying capacity

d)

biodiversity

19.

When the death rate rises and the birth rate lowers...

a)

population increases

b)

population decreases

c)

population stays the same

d)

all of these

20.

A scientist was studying a population of fish in a pond over a period of 10 years. He observed that

the population increased each year for 3 years, and then remained nearly constant for the rest of

the study. The best explanation for this observation is that the population had

a)

stopped reproducing

b)

reached carrying capacity

c)

mutated into a different species

d)

run out of food and all died