Population Growth and Carrying Capacity

The other characteristic of a population is called dispersion.

• True

• False

Population growth rate is based mostly on these two factors.

• birth and death rates

• life expectancy

• immigration anf emigration

• carrying capacity

As a population nears the carrying capacity, resources become limitless. 

• True

• False

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A population growth rate describes how fast a given population grows.

• True

• False

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Which of the following is an example of density-independent factor?

• drought

• air-born virus

• intestinal parasite

• overcrowding

On 15 acres of forest there are seven white-tailed deer, eight coyotes, thirty-five armadillos and 200 redwood trees. Which population has the highest density?

• armadillo

• coyote

• redwood tree

• white-tailed deer

What is a population?

• group of living and non-living things in one area

• group of the same species living in one area

• number of remaining species after death

• group of different species living in one area

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It is the term used to describe when people leave their country.

• immigration

• migration

• emigration

• moving

A flowering plant has seeds that are carried by the wind. What type of dispersion pattern does it show?

• random

• uniform

• regular

• clumped

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

• undefined

• grow

• stays the same

• shrink

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