Biology Population Ecology

The largest number of individuals that an area can support.

• carrying limit

• carrying capacity

• limiting factor

• density ratio

What does the yellow line represent?

• exponential growth

• logistic growth

• carrying capacity

• none of the above

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This graph is a J shape. What type of growth does this represent?

• Exponential

• Logistic

Processes that add individuals to a population.

• birth and immigration

• death and emigration

Processes that remove individuals from a population.

• death and emigration

• birth and immigration

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 8 million

• 25 million

• 6 million

• o million

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Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

• a limiting measure

• a limiting factor

• factorization

• materialization of precipitation

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What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000

• 8000

• 800

• 600

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A group of organisms of the same species living in the same place at the same time is called a(n) _________.

• ecosystem

• population

• community

• organism

According to the graph, what is causing the deer population to decrease

• They got sick

• The wolf population is decreasing

• The wolf population increased

• They ran out of food

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