Biology (Raven), 9th Edition

Chapter 56: Poplulation Ecology

Pre-Test

1
What type of adaptation evolves over evolutionary time to make organisms better suited to the environment in which they live?
A)Physiological
B)Morophological
C)Behavioral
D)More than one of these
E)None of these
2
Resource distributions or competition for resources may result in
A)random distribution
B)uniform distribution
C)clumped distribution
D)nonrandom distribution
E)none of these
3
_____ show probability of survival and reproduction through a cohort's life span.
A)Survivorship curves
B)Population curves
C)Sex ratio
D)Life history
E)None of these
4
Reproduction in a single large event is called
A)semelparity.
B)iteroparity.
C)survivorship.
D)dispersal.
E)exponential growth.
5
Human populations have grown
A)linearly.
B)negatively.
C)logarithmically.
D)human population have not grown.
E)exponentially.
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