Populations & Communities Review

What does the graph represent?

• Emigration
• Exponential growth
• Immigration
• Logistic Growth

Which of the following is NOT a density-dependent limiting factor?

• flood
• disease
• predation
• competition

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit. 

• Mutualism 
• Competition
• Parasitsm 
• Commensalism 

Predator population lags behind prey population because:

• Increase in predators leads to decrease in prey

• Increase in predators leads to increase in prey

• Increase in predators leads to decrease in producers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

No two species can occupy the same niche

• Competitive Exclusion Principle 
• Limiting Exclusion Theory
• Competitive Limiting Principle
• Limiting Competitive Theory 

Succession which occurs when soil is no longer present after an ecological disturbance 

• Primary Succession
• Secondary Succession
• Tertiary Succession
• Quaternary Succession

The first species to inhabit an area after a disturbance

• Pioneer species
• Invasive species
• Initial Species
• Limiting Species

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

When an amoeba lives in the intestines of a human, causing an illness, the amoeba is referred to as a _

• Predator

• Prey

• Parasite

• Host

Movement of individuals into and out of an area

• succession

• migration

• pioneer species

• distribution