Population Ecology

What factor describes when populations increase because animals are moving into a population?

• Emigration
• Limiting Factors
• Immigration
• Exponential Growth

What factor describes when populations decrease because animals are moving out of a population?

• Emigration
• Limiting Factors
• Immigration
• Exponential Growth

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

What does the graph represent?

• Emigration
• Exponential growth
• Immigration
• Logistic Growth

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-2

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

• Unusual weather
• Natural disaster
• Births
• Disease

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• competition
• parasitism/disease
• stress
• natural disasters

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

Tags

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What will happen to the population when the death rate is larger than the birth rate?

• grow
• shrink
• stay the same
• None of these

What will happen to the population when the birth rate is larger than the death rate?

• grow
• shrink
• stay the same

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

Which will add more organisms to a population? 

• 5 animals die
• 0 animals are born
• 3 animals immigrate to the population
• 2 animals emmigrate from the population

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-5