Lab 7 Population Biology
1. What are the three factors that affect population size?
2. The greatest number of individuals a given environment can sustain is called its .
a. Biomass
b. Niche
c. Carrying capacity
d. Habitat
3. What is the name for the counting method where each individual organism is counted directly?
4. A farmer wants to know approximately how many dandelions are growing in one of his large crop fields. What population counting method would be best for this task?
5. You are tasked with counting the number of barn owls that live in a particular area. What population counting method would be best for this task?
