STARR Chapter 40 Test Review

What is a population?

What type of population size estimation is shown in the picture?

Which picture represents random distribution?

Which image represents clumped distribution?

What is the per capita growth rate (r) of a shrew population if the birth rate is .4 and the death rate is .1?

What is the size of a shrew population after one month if the starting shrew population is 300 shrews and the per capita growth (r) is 0.3?

[blank_start]________________[blank_end] curves, death rate is high early in life. [blank_start]______________[blank_end] curves death rate for the population is fairly constant. [blank_start]___________[blank_end] curves; death occurs later in life.

When did the shrew population reach carrying capacity?

Which population has the highest percentage of births compared to the rest of their population?

In the United States are their more women or men above 60?

Density independent limiting factors include forest fires, tornadoes and floods.

Select the following reasons carrying capacity could be reached.