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Multiple Choice!
100
A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
100
The crossing or mating of plants or animals with close relatives. (Something gross you should nOT EVEN CONSIDER)
What is inbreeding? (Bonus points if yucky face made.)
100
The distribution of individuals among different ages in a population.
What is age structure?
100
The four things that can change in a population.
What are size, density, dispersion, & age structure?
100
A population is ___________. A. the number of individuals born living to reproductive age B. Pork C. Baghdad D. birth rate minus death rate
A.
200
The spreading out of a species.
What is dispersion?
200
How long on average an individual is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
200
The number of births occurring in a period of time.
What is a birth rate?
200
The four factors that can change the size of a population.
What are immigration, emigration, birth and death?
200
What causes changes in population size? A. Births B. Movement of people in and out of an area C. Deaths D. All of the above
D.
300
The number of individuals an environment can support for an extended period of time.
What is carrying capacity?
300
Shows the probability that members of a population will survive to a certain age.
What are survivorship curves?
300
A model of population growth that assumes the finite resource levels limit population growth.
What is a logistic model?
300
The formula for calculating population change.
What is (Births + Immigration) - (Deaths + Emigration)= population change?
300
Limiting factor is ______ that restricts the size of a population. A. Everything B. Anything C. Something D. Nothing
B.
400
A biotic or abiotic factor that causes a population to decrease.
What is a limiting factor?
400
A way of life in which people obtain their food by hunting and gathering wild animals and plants.
What is the hunter-gatherer lifestyle?
400
The movement of individuals into a population.
What is immigration?
400
Factors such as weather, floods, and fires, reduce the population by the same proportion, regardless of the population's size.
What are density-independent factors?
400
A community is organisms of the ____ species that live in the same area at the same time. A. same B. different C. basic D. Pokemon
A.
500
Any factor, such as space, that restrains the growth of a population.
What is a limiting factor?
500
The amount by which a population's size changes in a given time.
What is growth rate?
500
The movement of individuals out of the population.
What is emigration?
500
Factors such as resource limitations, like shortages of food or nesting sites, and are triggered by increasing population density.
What are density-dependent factors?
500
Carrying capacity is the _______ number of individuals of one species in an environment. A. Smallest B. Mediumest C. Average D. Largest
D.