Populations

What describes how many males and females are in a given population?

• Growth rate
• Geographic range
  Age structure
• Death rate
• Geographic Range

Competition, food, water, disease, and space are all examples of:

• Carrying Capacity
• Stress Tolerances
• Limiting Factors
• Population Control

The largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support is: 

• limiting factors
• carrying capacity
• limit of tolerance
• range of tolerance

The movement of animals or people into a given area from another area is called

• immigration
• emigration

What type of growth model is this?

• Stable 
• Boom and bust 
• Exponential 
• Constant rate of change 

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

If the death rate of a population is greater than the birthrate, the population decreases.

• True
• False

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 10
• 30
• 40
• 45

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

What is the relationship between carrying capacity and limiting factors?

• Limiting factors set the carrying capacity
• Carrying capacity sets the limiting factors
• Limiting factors do not influence carrying capacity

Which of the following is NOT one of the factors that play a role in population growth rate?

• demography
• immigration
• emigration
• death rate

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

As prey populations increases, what happens to the predator population?

• Increases
• Decreases
• Remains stable

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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