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Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 15mins
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Class
Date
1.
If the number of births is greater than 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.
2.
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.
3.
______________ means moving into a population.
a)
Immigration
b)
Emmigration
c)
Plantation
d)
Repopulation
4.
What is happening in a population as it decreases?
a)
more emigration occurs
b)
more immigration occurs
c)
the birth rate and death rate remain the same
5.
When organisms move out of the population, this is known as
a)
emigration
b)
abandonment
c)
immigration
d)
succession
6.
The size of a population compared to the amount of space available is called the _________________.
a)
biotic potential
b)
population density
c)
limiting factor
d)
carrying capacity
7.
Anything that restricts the size of a population is a ________________________.
a)
biotic potential
b)
carrying capacity
c)
species
d)
limiting factor
8.
Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are often __________.
a)
limiting factors
b)
wet
c)
messy
d)
found in rocks
9.
Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support...
a)
carrying capacity
b)
population crash
c)
lag phase
d)
mutualism
10.
What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?
a)
1.8 million
b)
1.25 million
c)
1.6 million
d)
1.o million
11.
When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what 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 extinct due to lack of resources
d)
The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity
12.
If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then the population will mostly likely...
a)
stay the same
b)
decrease
c)
increase
13.
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
14.
number of organisms per certain area
a)
carrying capacity
b)
limiting factor
c)
total population
d)
population density
15.
When organisms move out of the population, this is known as
a)
emigration
b)
abandonment
c)
immigration
d)
succession
16.
What is happening in a population as it decreases?
a)
more emigration occurs
b)
more immigration occurs
c)
the birth rate and death rate remain the same
17.
What happened to the wolf population between 1980 and 1982?
a)
it increased rapidly
b)
it decreased rapidly
18.
which statement sounds accurate based on the graph data.
a)
The zebra and lions do not affect each other
b)
when lions population increases, so does the zebra population
c)
When the zebra population increases, it causes the lion population to also increase
d)
when zebra populations go down, the zebra population goes up.
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