Population Growth Answers

Which is the change in size of a group of organisms of the same species over time?

A population of sixteen emu grew to thirty-nine in one year. After two years, the population had grown to forty-eight. The maximum number of emu that the environment can support is approximately sixty due to limited resources such as food and water. What is the carrying capacity of the emu population?

A population is growing at a rate of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32. Which type of growth does this describe?

Which type of population growth is shown in this graph?

Based on this population growth graph, what can be concluded about the population?

What would most likely happen to the chipmunk population in 2014 if the population went up to 22 million in 2013?

A scientist was studying a population of elephants. The first year, he counted a population of 80. Over the next eight years, the population’s numbers were 94, 100, 103, 110, 125, 120, 125, 120. What appears to be the carrying capacity for this population?

Which type of population growth is shown in this graph?Population of Bacteria

The overall population of a species has increased. What could have occurred to allow this to happen?

Which type of growth can occur only when a population has unlimited resources?