Exam 17: Population Ecology

The human population will be in the stable equilibrium phase when the number of births ____ the number of deaths.

Interactions with other organisms affect the human population growth curve

The number of new individuals added to the population by reproduction is called

The carrying capacity of an area can be reduced if there is too much

If 100 bean seeds were planted in an area the size of your textbook and they all started to grow, you would expect

A population is not changing in size during the ____ phase.

The sum of all the different kinds of limiting factors is

A factor that directly affects the carrying capacity of a grasshopper population is

These small short-lived organisms have a reproductive strategy to produce many offspring that have fluctuating populations.

If something in the environment controls a population level and is uninfluenced by the population size, it is known as

If 100 bean seeds were planted in an area the size of your textbook and they all started to grow, you would expect

As the size of a population approaches the carrying capacity

The phase of a population growth curve that comes after the lag phase is the

The number of individuals per unit area is the

Which one of the following would result in an increase in the rate at which a population grows?

Available energy, in part, determines the

The population will be largest during the

Gene flow is

The number of offspring that could be born is the

Population control factors that arise from outside the population are called