Biology Populations Review

The point in which an area cannot hold any more individuals in an area is called its what?

• carrying capacity
• capital capacity
• carrying capability
• limiting point

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Individuals of a population who move into an area.

• Immigration
• Emigration
• Litigation
• Mastication

Which of the following will increase the size of a population?

• emigration and births
• immigration and deaths
• immigration and births
• emigration and deaths

Nesting birds often space themselves evenly from other nests. This pattern is called

• clumped dispersion.
• uniform dispersion.
• random dispersion
• scatter dispersion

To measure population density, you must divide the number of individuals living in a defined space by the

• area of the space
• birth and death rates
• carrying capacity
• height of the space

Individuals of a population who exit an area.

• Immigration
• Emigration
• Mitigation
• Lingation

Non-living factor that affects an ecosystem

• biotic factor
• abiotic factor
• food chain 
• biome

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An environmental factor such as storms and extreme heat or cold that affects population regardless of their density

• density- dependent factor
• population density
• dispersion
• density- independent factor

Biotic or abiotic things that control the size of a population

• Limiting factor
• density- dependent factor
• density- independent factot
• tolerance

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^{_{What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?}}

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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