Population Ecology

What type of factor has an increasing impact as the population size increases?

• density-independent

• density-dependent

• cohort effect

• survivorship factor

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NGSS.HS-LS2-6

Factors like predation can have a positive benefit to the population of prey organisms because predators tend to keep prey populations below their ___________.

• carrying capacity

• sustainibility number

• exponential growth point

• competition level

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

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

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

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are often __________.

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

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

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

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NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS4-5