Population Ecology

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

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NGSS.HS-LS2-6

What does the graph represent?

• Emigration
• Exponential growth
• Immigration
• Logistic Growth

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

Logistic growth has 3 phases. In Phase 1, the population grows rapidly. In Phase 2, population grows slowly. In Phase 3, growth stops. What causes growth to stop in the 3rd phase of logistic growth?

• Emigration
• Immigration
• Exponential Growth
• Carrying Capacity

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NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS2-1

True or False: Limiting factors can be population dependent and population independent.

• True/Cierto
• False/Falso

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which limiting factor would increase due to the number of individuals in a population?

• Unusual weather
• Natural disaster
• Births
• Disease

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which limiting factor is independent of the number of individuals in a population?

• competition
• parasitism/disease
• stress
• natural disasters

Human population grew exponentially after the industrial revolution. Which of the following DOES NOT help determine patterns in human population growth?

• age structure
• births
• deaths
• limiting factors

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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

What type of growth model is shown in image A?

• Exponential

• Logistic

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NGSS.HS-LS2-1