Determining Population Size Answers

Tagging animals is indicative of which type of method to determine population size?a.mark/recaptureb.direct observationc.samplingd.indirect observation

A J-shaped curve is called a(n) _______.a.logistic growth curveb.exponential growth curvec.linear growth curved.population growth curve

Which of the following methods involves counting the number of organisms in a specific area?a.mark/recaptureb.direct observationc.samplingd.indirect observation

Which of the following samples has the greatest population density?a.125,000 organisms in 2.5 mib.13,000 organisms in 1.0 mic.150,000 organisms in 4.0 mid.100,000 organisms in 0.5 mi

What is the main difference between logistic and exponential growth curves?a.Logistic growth curves never increase exponentially.b.Logistic growth curves stabilize when carrying capacity is reached.c.Logistic growth curves decrease before they increase.d.Logistic growth curves are identical to exponential growth curves.

Yellowstone National Park has an average of about 4500 bison living in it. The park covers 3472 square miles. What is the population density of bison living in Yellowstone?a.1.3 bison/mib.16 bison/mic.77 bison/mid.0.77 bison/mi

The equation total # of people in an area/(land) area in km2(or mi2) is used to calculatea.growth rateb.population densityc.death rated.carrying capacity

If China has a population of 1,355,935,022 people and an area of 3,705,405 mi, what is the population density of China?a.77 people/mib.123 people/mic.0.00273 people/mid.366 people/mi

The formula to calculate population density is _______.a.land area number of populationsb.number of populations land areac.number of organisms in a region land area d.land area number of organisms in a region