Population Growth
Levels of Organization
Analyzing Populations
Factors in Populations
100
What term is used when a organisms move into a population?
Immigration
100
What is the term for "all of the same species in a given area at the same time"?
Population
100
What kind of growth is shown in the graph below:
exponential growth
100
True or false. Limiting factors can be biotic or abiotic.
True.
200
What type of population growth has a graph shaped like an S and shows carrying capacity?
Logistic Growth
200
What is the term for "all of the biotic organisms in the same area"?
Community
200
If within the population of bison, the death rate is higher than the birth rate. What is happening to the size of the population?
It is decreasing.
200
All of the following are examples of limiting factors EXCEPT:
A. food B. disease
C. habitat D. temperature
D. temperature
300
What is the term used if a population's growth increases rapidly? DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What does this look like on a graph?
Exponential growth
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: J
300
What is the term for "all of the living and non-living things in the same area"?
Ecosystem
300
What will happen to the population size based on the age-structure diagram below:
It will increase.
300
Penguins evenly space their nests and protect them from other penguins. Penguins provide an example of what type of dispersion?
Uniform dispersion
400
The germination, cloning, birth, or hatching of individuals in a population is known as:
A. life span B. niche C. natality
C. natality
400
What is the term for "a group of individuals that interbreed and produce offspring"?
Species
400
What is the carrying capacity of this population?DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What kind of growth is shown on the graph?
2000
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: logistic growth
400
Plant seeds that blow in the wind probably exhibit what type of dispersion?
Random dispersion
500
Young adult male chimpanzees look for mates outside their own population. The males then take the females back to their group. Which of the following occurs in females’ original population? A. emigration B. immigration
C. mortality D. natality
A. emigration
500
What is the term for "the basic level of organization that an ecologist studies"?
Organism
500
If these were the age structure diagrams of a population of koalas and you were worried about their decline, which population would warrant the most care and concern? (1st, 2nd, or 3rd)
3rd
500
What characteristic of a population is created as a result of limiting factors within an environment?
Hint: It keeps the population from growing exponentially.
Carrying capacity