What Term is defined as the Number of Individuals that live in the same area at the same time?
A. Carrying Capacity
B. Population
C. Sample
What is Population
100
What is a biotic factor?
A. Sunlight
B. Vegetation
C. Air
What is Vegetation
100
At the peak of their movement, 44 lemmings crossed a certain point every minute. Is this an example of:
A. Hypothesis
b. Observation
C. Problem
What is Observation
100
Which is NOT a limiting factor for humans?
A. light
B. Food
C.Water
What is light
100
What unit are Food Calories measured in?
What is Kilocalorie
200
What makes up a population?
A. Individuals
B. Ecosystems
C. Communities
What is Individuals
200
"eleven crickets per square mile in Illinois, this year" is an example of what?
A. Carrying Capacity
B. birthrate
C. density
What is Density
200
IT could be that lemmings sense their local environment's carrying capacity. Is this an example of:
A. Hypothesis
B. Observation
C. Problem
What is Hypothesis
200
Which organism has the greatest dispersal
A. Salmon
B. Human
C. Polar Bears
What is Human
200
The number of people in an area is greater than the food able to feed them. This would cause a food shortage also known as a ....
What is a famine
300
If immigration and emigration in the population are the same what rate would cause the populaton to increase?
A. If birthrate and mortality rate were the same
B. If birthrate was higher than mortality rate
C. If birthrate was lower and mortality rate was higher
What is the birthrate was higher than mortality rate
300
What factor is usually responsible for limiting the size of the population in the biosphere?
A. Size of the living space
B. Carrying Capacity
C.increase in annual birthrate
What is carrying capacity
300
Which probably has the most rapid dispersal?
A. a microorganism in a puddle
B. a vine in a forest
C. Mushroom spores carried by wind
What is mushroom spores carried by wind
300
How is the human population increasing
A. Steadily
B. Not increasing but Decreasing
C. Exponentially
What is Exponentially
300
What is the problem with highly mechanized farming?
What is they use more energy than they produce
400
What type of rate is altered when birth control is used?
A. birthrate
B.mortality rate
C. immigration
What is birthrate
400
What is true about the resources needed to support a population of animals?
A. Always finite
B. Always increasing
C. Always constant
What is resources are always finite
400
Name 3 Physical barriers
What is mountains... Large Bodies of water...Climate Tolerance ..(Behavior)
400
What technologies have Humans used to Disperse? Name 5
What is Spaceships.. Planes..Trains.. Cars.. Boats.. Trucks
400
The amount of energy required to take 1 gram of water to 1 degree Celsius is called ...
What is a calorie
500
What would explain why the human population is growing larger?
BE SPECIFIC
What is Human birthrate exceeds mortality rate
500
What are 3 examples of Biotic and 3 examples of Abiotic resources?
Can be:
Abiotic- weather, sunlight, rain, living space
Biotic- predators, mates, prey\food etc.
500
What do you call movement from one central area into another?
What is Dispersal
500
How is Human population able to survive regardless of the increasing population?
Name Two reasons
Advancements in medicine and agriculture
500
Name three Human Impacts we discussed in Chapter 2
What is Smog... Acid Rain ... Groundwater depletion... Slash and burn (deforestation.... others