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Population dynamics quiz review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the equation for growth rate?

a)

r= b-d/N

b)

I= r(K-N)N/K

c)

K-N/K

d)

I= rN

2.

What is the equation for exponential growth?

a)

r= b-d/N

b)

I= rN

c)

D= N/S

d)

K-N/K

3.

What is the equation for density?

a)

r= b-d/N

b)

I= r(K-N)N/K

c)

D= N/S

d)

I= rN

4.

What is the equation for Logistic growth?

a)

I=rN

b)

D= N/S

c)

K-N/K

d)

I= r(K-N)N/K

5.

How do you determine if you're close to carrying capacity?

a)

K-N/K

b)

I= rN

c)

D= N/S

d)

r= b-d/N

6.

What is population growth?

a)

the number of individuals of a particular kind of organism per unit of space at a given time

b)

The change in the size of a population with time

c)

Interactions among organisms that limit population size

d)

factors that affect populations regardless of density

7.

What is density?

a)

factors that affect populations regardless of density

b)

the change in the size of a population with time

c)

the number of individuals of a particular kind of organism per unit of space at a given time

d)

organisms leaving the population

8.

What is birth rate?

(a)  

9.

What is death rate?

a)

natality

b)

immigration

c)

emigration

d)

Mortality

10.

What is the arrival of new organisms in population (moving in) ?

(a)  

11.

organisms leaving the population

a)

Emigration

b)

mortality

c)

immigration

d)

natality

12.

What is the study of population growth characteristics ?

a)

Density

b)

Demography

c)

Age structure

d)

population growth

13.

What is mark and recapture?

a)

The study of population growth characteristics

b)

the number of individuals of a particular kind of organism per unit of space at a given time

c)

method used by scientists to estimate the size of a mobile population of organisms

d)

the change in the size of a population with time

14.

Graph with an S-shape

a)

boom and bust

b)

idk

c)

exponential growth

d)

logistic growth

15.

Graph with J-shaped curve

a)

exponential growth

b)

logistic growth

c)

boom and bust

d)

extinction

16.

Graph with unlimited growth and sudden collapses

a)

Logistic growth

b)

Boom and Bust

c)

exponential growth

d)

giraffe

17.

What is the number of organisms a population in a particular environment can support over an indefinite period of time ?

a)

logistic growth

b)

boom and bust

c)

Carrying capacity

d)

exponential growth

18.

What strategist is represented by rate of growth ?

a)

carrying capacity

b)

K-strategist

c)

42

d)

r-strategist

19.

What strategist is represented by carrying capacity?

a)

K-strategist

b)

42

c)

r-strategist

d)

growth population

20.

Which are density-dependent factors ?

a)

Interactions among organisms that limit population size

b)

factors that affect populations regardless of density

c)

factors that limit population density

d)

disease , competition, parasites

21.

Which are density-independent factors?

a)

factors that affect populations regardless of density

b)

factors that limit population density

c)

Temperature, storms, floods, drought, habitat destruction

d)

disease, parasites, and competition

22.

Ensures the continuation of the flow of energy

a)

Predation

b)

competition

c)

crowding and stress

d)

supply and demand

23.

compete for resources

a)

predation

b)

competition

c)

density-independent factor

d)

crowding and stress

24.

Aggression, decreased parental care, decreased fertility, decreased resistance to disease

a)

twenty-seven

b)

predation

c)

Crowding and stress

d)

competition

25.

Strategist that species have a slow rate of reproduction

a)

r-strategist

b)

supply and demand

c)

predation

d)

K-strategist