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What does the term carrying capacity describe?
The maximum number of birth rates for a population.
The ability of a population to accept new immigrants.
The ratio of birth rates to death rates in a population.
The population size that the environment can sustain.
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A Density Independent Limiting Factor is a limiting factor of a population that can affect population growth no matter what the population density. What is a density independent limiting factor that can affect the human population growth of North Carolina?
disease
hurricanes
food supply
water supply
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?10008000800600
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What type of growth is shown in the diagram?exponential growthlogistic growthpredator-prey cycleboom-bust curve
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Which of the following is a density-dependent limiting factor?
human activities
unusual weather
competition
natural disaster
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.If the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?It will increase.It will decrease.It will stay the same.It will fluctuate.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?1.8 million1.25 million1.6 million1.o million
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An environmental factor such as predation, disease, and competition that depends on the number of members in a population per unit (or area) is called ___________.
dispersion
density- independent factor
density- dependent factor
Scattered points
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.If the number of births is greater than the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?It will increase.It will decrease.It will stay the same.It will fluctuate.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?Continues to growThe population starts to die off to return to carrying capcityThe population will go extinct due to lack of resourcesThe population grows then finds a new carrying capacity