Ecology Quiz L1-6

Maximum number of individuals in a population an environment can support

• Carrying Capacity

• Population Size

• Trophic Level

• Biomass

Something that puts pressure on a population's size and slows or stops it from growing

• Carrying Capacity

• Biodiversity

• Resource Factor

• Limiting Factor

Total weight or mass of organism within a given area

• Weightmass

• Biomass

• Carrying Capacity

• Population size

role an organism takes in an ecosystem (producer, consumer, decomposer)

• Trophic Level

• Biomass

• Lion

• Energy

The ability to do work or cause change and carry out life functions

• Energy

• Working hard

• Migration

• Eating

The number of different species in an area

• Population

• Biodiversity

• Biomass

• Biology

What was the cause of the Buffalo population to increase from 1960-1975?

• Food availability- rain

• Climate change

• Predator population

• Eradication of Rinderpest

Which of the following limiting factors can possibly affect a population size for any species? Choose all that apply

• Food availability

• Climate change

• Predators

• Space

If rabbits eat grass and foxes eat rabbits, then how many rabbits would there be if there are 50 foxes?

• 500

• 5

• 5,000

• 50

If rabbits eat grass, and foxes eat rabbits, if there were 30 rabbits how many foxes would there be?

• 4

• 30

• 3

• 300