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Q.1)	Populations that are growing exponentially increase by a fixed percentage rate each year. Which of the following characterizes this type of growth?

A.	The time it takes for the population to double increases

B.	Population growth slows down

C.	The amount by which the population grows gets progressively larger

D.	Population growth will eventually slow down and the population will stabilize

E.	Population growth slows down

Q.2)	In England, a group of dog breeds with large, floppy ears called hounds came into existence and were used as hunting dogs because of their sense of smell. Which statement most accurately represents the process that produced dog breeds from the wild-type (feral) dog?

A.	Gene mutations in dogs arose spontaneously and were isolated to England where hounds supplanted the feral dogs in the wild shortly after they appeared

B.	Natural selection has resulted in the evolution of the wild-type dog into several separate species including the hound, the chihuahua, and the bullmastiff

C.	Natural selection is a totally random process, so hounds would have appeared whether people found them useful and attractive or not

D.	Humans noticed dogs with large, floppy ears and a great sense of smell and bred them with similar dogs

E.	Natural selection directed the gene mutations and reproductive success of these breeds

Q.3)	The maximum population size that a given environment can sustain is called which of the following?

A.	Total fertility rate

B.	Population density

C.	Carrying capacity

D.	Age structure

E.	Replacement fertility

Q.4)	Which of the following best describes a community?

A.	A group of interacting species and the non-living environment with which they interact

B.	A group of interacting populations in the same area

C.	A group made up of all the members of one species

D.	A group made up of all the members of two interacting species

E.	A group of individuals of the same species

Q.5)	Which of the following statements is an accurate description of the three factor model of environmental impact?

A.	Affluence has a negative impact; technology has a positive impact

B.	Changes in population, affluence, or technology can change our impact on the environment

C.	Changes in technology and affluence have a negative effect on the environment

D.	Only affluence has an impact on the environment

E.	Only population has any environmental impact

Q.6)	The Monteverde rain forest provides an example of which of the following?

A.	Rapid extinction of endemic organisms

B.	Failure to protect an endangered species, the golden toad

C.	Rapid extinction of introduced species

D.	Failure of international environmental policy

E.	Failure to recover from deforestation

Q.7)	Which of the expressions below correctly states the relationship between the factors that cause population change?

A.	Population change = (births + immigration) -- (deaths + emigration)

B.	Population change = (births + immigration) -- (deaths)

C.	Population change = (births + deaths) -- (immigration + emigration)

D.	Population change = (births + emigration) -- (deaths + immigration)

E.	Population change = (births) -- (deaths)

Q.8)	Which of the following best describes biodiversity?

Q.9)	What is the TFR?

A.	The number of children a woman will have in a year

B.	The total number of children born in a population in a year

C.	The rate of reproduction that keeps a population stable

D.	The average number of children born per woman of a population during her lifetime

E.	The birth rate of a population

Q.10)	What is habitat selection?

A.	When the organism chooses the nutrition that it needs

B.	An organism will choose its habitat entirely on the presence of the food it prefers to eat

C.	When an organism selects a specific environment in which to live from the range of options it encounters

D.	When the organism chooses the biome to live in

E.	When the organism chooses its niche

Q.11)	Which of the following best describes the cornucopian view?

A.	Disease is a limiting factor of population growth, so impacts on resources is ultimately minimal

B.	As resources are depleted, human ingenuity can be used to find or create new resources

C.	Geologists have shown that the Earth regenerates resources as fast as they are discovered and used

D.	Human population growth will result in resource depletion

E.	Human population growth will not lead to resource depletion 0

Q.12)	Which of the following expressions correctly describes the population growth rate?

A.	Birth rate - Death rate

B.	(Birth rate + Immigration rate) ( (Death rate + Emigration rate)

C.	Birth rates are the only valid measures of population growth

D.	(Birth rate + Immigration rate) + (Death rate + Emigration rate)

E.	(Birth rate + Emigration rate) - (Death rate + Immigration rate)

Q.13)	Which of the following best describes the changes in population growth that take place in the demographic transition model?

A.	Low growth -- Population Increase -- Low Growth

B.	High growth -- Population Increase -- High Growth

C.	High growth -- Population Increase -- Low Growth

D.	Low growth -- Population Decline -- Low Growth

E.	Low growth -- Population increase -- High Growth

Q.14)	Which statement below most accurately describes a phylogenetic tree?

A.	A diagram that shows how one species develops into another

B.	A branching diagram used to illustrate a scientist's hypothesis about how organisms evolved

C.	A branching diagram used to illustrate a scientist's hypothesis about how individuals of a population are related

D.	A branching diagram used to illustrate a scientist's hypothesis about how divergence took place among species

E.	A genetically modified tree that can produce asexually without using seeds

Q.15)	Which of the following contributes to environmental impact?

A.	Population size and density, but not population distribution

B.	Population distribution, but not population size or density

C.	Population size and distribution, but not density

D.	Population size, density, and distribution

E.	Population size but not population density or distribution

Q.16)	Which of the following describes the innate reproduction rate of an organism?

A.	Crude death rate

B.	Logistic growth

C.	Biotic potential

D.	Environmental resistance

E.	Carrying capacity

Q.17)	What does the demographic transition model attempt to explain?

A.	The increase in population growth in developing countries

B.	Why populations become more urbanized

C.	The decline in death rates and birth rates that occurred in countries that underwent industrialization

D.	The decline in death rates and birth rates that occurred in nations that approached their carrying capacity

E.	A change in the carrying capacity of an environment

Q.18)	Which of the following best describes the populations involved in allopatric speciation?

A.	Two populations divided by a physical boundary, restricting gene flow between the populations

B.	Populations that are unrelated

C.	Populations that have mutated

D.	It involves the extinction of one population

E.	Populations in one location without a physical barrier

Q.19)	What is carrying capacity?

A.	The average number of offspring produced by a species

B.	Maximum population size that a given environment can sustain

C.	Limitation on the number of species in a given ecosystem

D.	Greatest number of niches possible in a given area

E.	Potential number of species in a given area

Q.20)	Species with high biotic potential such as mosquitoes are referred to as which of the following?

A.	K-selected

B.	Examples of low survival because they die off in large numbers every fall

C.	r-selected

Q.21)	What is logistic growth?

Q.22)	Which of the following is a description of a population's age structure?

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