This quiz was written to test the material on my ecology unit called,
Population Ecology
This document can be used as a quiz, as a homework assignment or as test review. The document contains 33 questions. There are 30 fill in the blank questions and 3 short answer questions. Answer key is provided.
This product is also included in a complete unit plan bundle that includes everything you need to complete a unit on this topic:
Population Ecology Complete Unit Plan.
This quiz is appropriate for biology or life science students in grades 7 - 12.
Topics covered in this lesson are:
1. Characteristics of Populations: Definition of population, geographic distribution, density, dispersion, growth rate, and age structure.
2. Types of Dispersion: Clumped, even, and random, definitions and examples are given.
3. Population Dynamics: Birth rate, death rate, life expectancy.
4. Patterns of mortality: Survivorship Curves, the three types are defined and explained, examples given.
5. Life Histories: Big-bang reproduction and repeated reproduction
6. Population Growth: Growth rate, factors that determine the size of a population, migration, density, exponential growth, carrying capacity, limits to population growth, graphs of different types of population growth, logistic growth, assumptions of the exponential model and the logistic model.
7. Limits to Growth: Limiting factors, examples of limiting factors, density-dependent factors, competition, predation, parasitism, disease, territoriality, density independent factors.
8. Human Population Growth: The history of human population growth, current human population growth, demographic transition, age-structure diagrams.
The download will include both a Word document as well as a pdf form of the quiz.
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