Population Ecology

What does the graph represent?

• Emigration
• Exponential growth
• Immigration
• Logistic Growth

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What does the graph represent?

• Emigration

• Exponential growth

• Immigration

• Logistic Growth

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

NGSS.HS-LS2-1

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

• Unusual weather
• Natural disaster
• Births
• Disease

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which limiting factor is independent of the number of individuals in a population?

• competition
• parasitism/disease
• stress
• natural disasters

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NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

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?

• Emigration
• Immigration
• Exponential Growth
• Carrying Capacity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Boom and bust cycles, where populations will grow and shrink over and over, are usually caused by...

• Predator-Prey Relationships
• Parasite-Host relationships
• Extinction 
• None of these

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A population is...

• A group of one species in one area
• Multiple species that live in one area
• All of the living and nonliving things in an area
• None of these

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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CCSS.HSF-IF.C.7E

Which factor is a density-dependent limiting factor on the population of a species?

• seasonal variation
• natural disasters
• unusual weather
• predation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Any abiotic or biotic factor in an ecosystem that causes a population’s size to slow or decrease is a ____________ factor.

• growth
• limiting
• carrying
• density dependent

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NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

NGSS.HS-LS4-2