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Introductory Biology

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Set 34 An Interactive Living World 1 Populations In Ecology

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Question 1

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The average amount of time that passes between the birth of a woman and the birth of her child is called:

A) reproductive time.
B) generation time.
C) birth rate.
D) population rate.

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Question 2

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A negative rate of increase, or a negative r, means that:

A) the population is shrinking.
B) the population has a short generation time.
C) death rates have decreased.
D) there is zero population growth.

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Question 3

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Studying the egg production rates of a certain species of frog in a particular pond would be an example of studying ecology at which level?

A) ecosystem
B) population
C) biosphere
D) community

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