AP Environmental Science: Population Practice Test

Which of the following leads to a decrease in birthrates among women?

All of the following are characteristics of R selected species except

The number of individuals an environment can support is known as the

A small community started out with 10 people in year 1. During Year 1, they had 10 births and 5 deaths. What was this community’s growth rate for Year 1?

In what year did exponential growth start to occur for the population on the graph?

Which statement about human population growth is LEAST likely to be correct?

In a population of spiders there are three different sizes: small, medium, and large.
—The large spiders are easily seen by predators.
—Small spiders have a difficult time finding food.
What will most likely happen to this population of spiders after many generations?

The habitat of a moth species included trees with both light and dark colored bark. Therefore the moth species included both light and dark colored variants.Then the light-colored trees were wiped out by a disease, and within a few years nearly all the moths in this forest were dark colored. Which of the following choices BEST explains what happened?

According to the population pyramid of this country, its population is most likely

What kind of growth is this country experiencing?

A variable that influences an individual’s probability of survival and reproduction in a manner that depends on the size of the population is known as

A country with a greater number of younger people than older people has an age structure diagram that resembles which of the following?

According to the theory of demographic transition, a country in phase 1 demographic transition will experience which of the following?

Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the descriptions of survivorship curves provided above?

A country has a Net Immigration Rate of 3 per 1,000; a Crude Birth Rate (CBR) of 9 per 1,000; and a Crude Death Rate (CDR) of 11 per 1,000. What is the growth rate of this country?

Which of the following describes the shape of the logistic growth model with time as the independent variable and population growth as the dependent variable?

Which of the following is an r-adapted species?

The average number of offspring required to offset the average number of deaths in a population so that the population remains stable is referred to as:

Refer to the graph below.