Determining Population Size Answers

Which of the following samples has the greatest population density?

Logistic growth curves are density-dependent.

What is the main difference between logistic and exponential growth curves?

A J-shaped curve is called a(n) _______.

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 larger population density always indicates a larger population size.

For which method of determining population size is the population not aware of the sampler’s presence?

The three methods for determining population size are observation, mark and recapture, and sampling.

The formula to calculate population density is _______.

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

The equation total # of people in an area/(land) area in km2(or mi2) is used to calculate

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

Which of the following is a density-independent factor?

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?

When tagging animals specifically for the study of population size, scientists must do all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following methods involves counting the number of organisms in a specific area?

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

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