Wildlife Population Dynamics

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

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

• grow
• shrink
• stay the same

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What does the term carrying capacity describe?

• The maximum number of birth rates for a population.

• The ability of a population to accept new immigrants.

• The ratio of birth rates to death rates in a population.

• The population size that the environment can sustain.

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The movement of a single caribou into a herd is an example of

• population
• immigration
• emigration
• predation

What 2 factors decrease population size?

• Immigration, Births
• Emigration, Births
• Emigration, Deaths
• Immigration, Deaths

Which of the following would INCREASE the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• increase in predators
• disease
• increase in available food
• drought

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The factors in an ecoysystem that have never had the ability to live.

• Biotic Factor
• Abiotic Factor
• Biome
• Community

All living things or organisms in an ecosystem are

• None

• biotic factors

• abiotic factors

Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all  _____  parts of the environment

• alive
• biotic 
• abiotic
• living

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