Populations

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 8 million

• 25 million

• 6 million

• o million

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When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?

• Continues to grow

• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity

• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources

• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

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In a forest ecosystem, which of the following is the best example of a limiting factor for a rabbit population?

• Squirrel Population

• Sunlight

• Grass available

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What happened to the wolf population between 1980 and 1982?

• it increased rapidly

• it decreased rapidly

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A group of the same type of organisms living in the same place at the same time.

• threatened species

• populations

• abiotic factors

• limiting factor

Members of a species in a defined area

• Ecosystem

• community

• biodiversity

• population

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Carrying capacity is...

• The maximum number of individuals that can fit into an area

• Ability of an area to accommodate a growing population

• The greatest # of individuals an area can support over time.

• The maximum number of species that can co-exist in an area

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same species same area

• habitat

• biome

• community

• population

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The number of wild horses per square kilometer in a prairie is the horse population's -

• density

• dispersion

• size

• birth rate

Which of the following is a population?

• hawks, barred owls, and eagles on NC coast

• a mountain stream

• all the frogs in a pond of different species

• blue-tailed skinks (lizards) around a barn