Intro to ecology graphing practice

The largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term is...

• carrying capacity

• emigration

• immigration

• population density

If the death rate is ______ than the birth rate then the population will ____________.

• Greater/Increase
• Greater/Decrease

If the birth rate is _________ than the death rate then the population will ____________.

• Greater/Increase
• Greater/Decrease

To immigrate means to 

• leave a country
• enter a country
• seek safety in a country
• return to a country

To emigrate means to 

• leave a country
• enter a country
• seek safety in a country
• return to a country

Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

• a limiting measure
• a limiting factor
• factorization
• materialization of precipitation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Is this graph showing exponential growth or logistical growth?

• Exponential

• logistical

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-1

Look at this image- What is the carrying capacity of this population?

• 21

• 5000

• 2000

• 1000

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What type of growth is represented by this graph?

• exponential

• logistic

What is the carrying capacity of this population?

• 100
• 200
• 300
• 400

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-1