Check for Understanding: Objective 3
Survivorship Strategies
1. Sketch a survivorship curve of Type I, Type II, and Type III survivors.
2. Humans represent a Type I survivorship curve. Explain why that is.
Check for Understanding: Objective 3 ANSWER KEY
Survivorship Strategies
1. Sketch a survivorship curve of Type I, Type II, and Type III survivors. Then, provide an
example of an organism that fits each type of survivorship curve.
2. Humans represent a Type I survivorship curve. Explain why that is.
Humans represent a Type I survivorship curve because very few humans die at a young age. Most humans survive until
a threshold age. Then, humans begin dying at a rapid rate much later in life.