Exam 17: Population Ecology

Rabbits were introduced to Australia in the eighteenth century. There were no other rabbits in Australia, and there were no natural predators for the rabbits. It is likely that their population experienced ____.

A house mouse has a(n) ____.

A flood that washes away an entire population of rabbits is a(n) ____.

An epidemic facilitated by a high, dense population is an example of a(n) ____ factor.

Refer to the following figure for questions 53, 54, and 55.   Letter "B" designates the ____, which allowed for an increase in human population growth.

The age structure diagram for rapidly growing populations ____.

A cohort is ____.

How much of Europe's population was wiped out by the Black Death?

A type III survivorship curve is characteristic of ____.

The study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment is known as ____.

The most sustainable method for limiting human population growth is ____.

The highest number of individuals in the United States are in the ____ age structure category.

Type I survivorship curves ____.

If reproduction occurs early in the life cycle, ____.

A study of a cohort of 1,000 newborn animals showed a death rate of 40 percent per individual in year one and a death rate of 80% per individual in year two. The quantity of survivors after two years is about ____.

In a population of Asian elephants, the death rate equals the birth rate. This population ____.

A change in a population that is related strictly to its size is best described as ____.

On Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean, the population rose to 3,000 people from the original population of 100. In time, the entire island was cultivated, and eventually, the soils became so overcultivated that crops could no longer be grown. People started dying from starvation and disease. This Easter Island population had exceeded its ____.

  From this age structure diagram for India, it is likely that India's population will ____.

  During phase "2" in the given figure, the growth is ____ as long as resources are plentiful.