Biol 101
Population Growth Homework Questions
Name: ________________________
You should be able to answer these questions based upon your reading of the sections 43.2 – 43.4 of
the textbook. Due next class period. 10 points.
1. Matching
Demographic concept
____ Fecundity
____ Age structure
____ Environmental resistance
____ Biotic potential
Description
A. The distribution of age classes in a population.
B. A theoretical maximum rate of population growth.
C. Number of offspring produced during a lifetime.
D. The total number of individuals in a population.
E. Factors that tend to slow the rate of population growth.
2a. Name the following population age structure patterns. ?
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2b. Which population type would be expected to show the greatest rate of increase? Explain why
3. Within a species that has a type III survivorship pattern:
A. Most organisms live to maturity.
B. Most organisms increase in size only late in life.
C. Most organisms die before reaching maturity.
D. Organisms die equally at all stages of life.
4. Circle the part of the diagram that illustrates ‘exponential
growth’.
5. The population size indicated by the dotted line is called
the _______________________, which is:
A. the maximum number of individuals the ecosystem
can support.
B. The largest size to which the organisms can grow.
C. The number of years it takes a population to fill the ecosystem.
D. None of the above answers is correct.
6. From Section 43.4 identify three social issues that are having significant effects on human
population growth in different nations.
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3.