5.1 Population Growth

What pattern of population distribution does this school of fish represent?

• Random
• Uniform
• Clumped
• Knotted

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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?

• It will increase.
• It will decrease.
• It will stay the same.
• It will fluctuate.

If the number of births is greater than the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?

• It will fluctuate.
• It will decrease.
• It will stay the same.
• It will increase.

What growth pattern describes a population whose growth rate slows or stops following a period of exponential growth?

• logistic growth
• population growth
• exponential growth
• predator-prey cycle

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What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

• exponential growth
• logistic growth 
• predator-prey cycle
• boom-bust curve

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 1.9 million
• 0.9 million
• 1.6 million
• 1.0 million

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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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The number of organisms per certain area

• carrying capacity
• limiting factor
• total population
• population density

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When organisms move out of the population, this is known as

• abandonment
• emmigration
• immigration
• succession

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

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