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A life table


A) provides data on the number of individuals alive in a particular age class.
B) more often than not excludes males.
C) typically includes age classes each representing one year.
D) allows predictions to be made on how a population will grow.
E) All of the answers are correct.

F) A) and C)
G) B) and C)

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What percentage of the population are children 4 year old and younger in West Africa?


A) 8.5
B) 12
C) 17
D) 23
E) 50

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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A fisheries biologist tells you she is studying a cohort of salmon returning to their birth river. What does this tell you about these salmon?


A) These salmon are iteroparous.
B) Most of these salmon are one or two years old.
C) All of these salmon are the same age.
D) This group of salmon show a uniform distribution.
E) The salmon are still too young for reproduction.

F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

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The United Nations projects a stabilizing world population at


A) two billion.
B) seven billion.
C) ten billion.
D) fourteen billion.
E) None of these choices are correct.

F) None of the above
G) B) and C)

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The intrinsic rate of increase is


A) the rate of population growth under optimal conditions.
B) rarely seen.
C) independent of predation and competition.
D) the unchanging rate of population growth until the carrying capacity is reached.
E) the rate of population growth under optimal conditions and rarely seen.

F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

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Growth slows down when populations reach carrying capacity because of


A) competition and resource limitation.
B) uniform dispersion patterns.
C) zero population growth.
D) per capita growth rate.
E) resource limitation and lognormality.

F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

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r-selected species tend to have type III survivorship curves.

A) True
B) False

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Why is a random dispersal pattern the rarest in nature?


A) Only aquatic resources are randomly dispersed.
B) Resources in nature are rarely randomly spaced.
C) Most animals have social behavior such as forming flocks.
D) Resources such as most, fertile soil are common and abundant.
E) None of these choices are correct.

F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

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Slow-growing oak trees are r-selected compared to dandelions.

A) True
B) False

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What is a tool of population ecology to study populations?


A) iteoparity
B) growth ecology
C) demography
D) exponential growth
E) disease ecology

F) A) and D)
G) C) and E)

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Organisms that produce all of their offspring in a single event are


A) always successful.
B) never successful.
C) autogenous.
D) semelparous.
E) iteroparous.

F) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

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