Populations 5.1

A population that grows until it reaches its carrying capacity due to limiting factors has the shape of a/an

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In a particular area of an Arizona desert, there are 150 Saguaro cacti plants per square kilometer. Which population characteristic would the data be recorded as by a scientist who is studying this population?

• age structure

• growth rate

• population density

• geographic distribution

The movement of individuals within a population OUT OF a given area is called

• Immigration

• Carrying Capacity

• Emigration

• Population shift

What information does the range of a population provide?

• The number of individuals in a population.

• The area that a population inhabits.

• The carrying capacity of a population.

• The growth rate of a population.

When the birthrate in a population becomes higher that the death rate, the population growth

• increases.

• decreases.

• levels off.

• decreases, then levels off.

When individuals within a population reproduce at a constant rate, with no limiting factors, it produces a growth pattern called

• logistic growth.

• exponential growth.

• growth density.

• demographic growth.

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If a bacterial population experiences uncontrolled growth (no limiting factors), the basic shape of the growth pattern (when graphed) would resemble a/an _____-shaped growth.

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In the image shown above, the growth pattern of a fruit fly population would be described as _________ growth.

• exponential

• limited

• logistic

• declining

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The maximum # of individuals that an environment can support and sustain is known as the populations' ____ ______.

• limiting growth

• carrying capacity

• death rate

• migration pattern

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The growth of a population can be measured by studying the birth rate, death rate and __________ patterns of the population.

• distribution

• abiotic

• species

• migration

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