Population growth

What type of growth is shown in the diagram?

• exponential growth

• logistic growth

• predator-prey cycle

• boom-bust curve

Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support...

• carrying capacity

• population

• biome

• mutualism

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 2.0 million

• 1.0 million

• 1.6 million

• 0.5 million

What is the approximate carrying capacity of Paramecium aurelia grown alone?

• 100

• 200

• 300

• 450

If a disease destroying wheat plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the bird population that feed off of the wheat in the the field ?

• The bird population would stay the same

• The bird population would increase

• The bird population would decrease

What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Which limiting factor is density independent?

• water

• food

• natural disasters

Which limiting factor would increase due to the number of individuals in a population?

• Unusual weather

• Natural disaster

• Disease

An environmental factor such as amount of space, disease, and availability of mates that depends on the number of members in a population is called

• density- dependent factor

• density- independent factor

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