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5.1 Distribution and Abundance

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
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
2.
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
3.

Which of the following describes a population?

a)

The total number of people, animals, and plants in New York City

b)

The total number of apartments in New York City

c)

The total number of people living in New York City

d)

The amount of water in the Hudson River

4.

What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

a)

exponential growth

b)

logistic growth

c)

predator-prey cycle

d)

boom-bust curve

5.

Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support...

a)

carrying capacity

b)

population

c)

biome

d)

mutualism

6.

Will competition increase or decrease the population of a species of animals?

a)

Decrease

b)

Increase

7.

When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what most likley happens to the population?

a)

Continues to grow

b)

The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity

c)

The population will go completely extinct due to lack of resources

8.

Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting to large.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Which limiting factor is density independent?

a)

water

b)

food

c)

natural disasters

10.

Which limiting factor would increase due to the number of individuals in a population?

a)

Unusual weather

b)

Natural disaster

c)

Disease

11.

An environmental factor such as amount of space, disease, and availability of mates that depends on the number of members in a population is called

a)

density- dependent factor

b)

density- independent factor

12.

If a disease destroying wheat plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the bird population that feed off of the wheat in the the field ?

a)

The bird population would stay the same

b)

The bird population would increase

c)

The bird population would decrease

13.

Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are called

a)

limiting factors

b)

species

c)

biotic

d)

none of the above

14.

Which of the following is a density dependent factor?

a)

volcanic eruption

b)

earthquake

c)

disease

d)

hurricane