Impacts on Biodiversity and Carrying Capacity

What happens if a population grows past its carrying capacity?

• The population keeps growing

• The population starts to die off

• The entire species will go extinct

• The carrying capacity just increases

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The largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term is...

• carrying capacity

• emigration

• immigration

• population density

What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

• around 500

• more than 800

• less than 300

• around 700

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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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When death rate is equal to birth rate...

• population increases

• population decreases

• population stays the same.

• population rapidly increases then becomes stable

If a disease destroying barley plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the barley eating bird population in the the field ?

• The bird population would stay the same
• The bird population would infinitely increase
• The bird population would decrease

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If the carrying capacity of a predator decreases, what will happen to the carrying capacity of the prey?

• Will Increase

• Will Decrease

• Will stay the same

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All of the organisms of one species living in the same area.

• Individual

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

Leveling off of the population after the maximum number the environment can support has been reached.

• Exponential

• Carrying capacity

• Linear

• Negative

Which of the following would likely be a limiting factor to a population?

• Abundance of food

• Living near a water source

• Presence of a natural predator

• Multiple sources for shelter

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