Population Changes

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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

• Continues to grow
• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity
• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

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In what year did exponential growth start to occur for the population on the graph?

• 1850
• 1900
• 1825
• 1800

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If there is an increase in deer hunting, this means the deer population is going to__

• increase
• decrease

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The largest number of individuals in a species that an environment can support long term

• carrying capacity
• emigration
• immigration
• population density

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 ?

• The bird population would stay the same
• The bird population would infinitely increase
• The bird population would decrease

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Temperature, light, air, water, soil and climate are all ______ parts of the environment.

• biotic
• abiotic
• living
• boreal

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Group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time

• population
• species
• community
• biome

Limiting factor that relies on the number of organisms in a given area

• density-dependent
• density-independent
• biotic potential
• carrying capacity

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Which of the following is NOT a density-dependent limiting factor?

• flood
• disease
• predation
• competition

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