Topic Test Answers

The events that lead to genetic drift are _______.

Lions live in groups called prides. Lion populations would most likely fall in which category of population distribution?

Why was the reduction of the bison population to under 1,000 individuals a bottleneck event for the species?

Natural selection is an evolutionary mechanism by which _______.

Which of the following limiting factors would be directly affected by a drought?

Which of the following selection pressures is responsible for the limited evolutionary changes experienced by alligators and other crocodilians?

There are approximately 30,000,000 white-tailed deer in the United States, which covers 3,536,000 square miles. What is the population density, rounded to the nearest whole number, for the white-tailed deer?

Which method to determine population size is the least invasive?

Which of the following statements about exponential growth curves is true?

The _______ is the total number of organisms that an ecosystem can support.

A species that has experienced a severe bottleneck event would be expected to _______.

Which is not a difference between a population showing exponential growth and a population showing logistic growth?

Natural selection does not always result in an increase in genetic diversity.

Tagging animals is indicative of which type of method to determine population size?

With regards to a “Data (Age) Structure Diagram”, which of the following is an indicator of a rapidly growing population?

The application of pesticides to control an invasive species is an example of _______.

The native range of a species includes all areas in which it lives.

The mark and recapture method of determining population size is always more effective than the sampling method.

The Toba supervolcanic event caused a bottleneck in the human population by _______.