AP®︎ Environmental Science: Topic 3.5 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 3.5 of AP Environmental Science – Population Growth and Resource Availability.
Questions List
Topic 3.5
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: ERT-3.F
What does population growth refer to?
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Topic 3.5: Population Growth and Resource Availability
Learning Objective: ERT-3.F
Explain how resource availability affects population growth.
Essential Knowledge: ERT-3.F.1
Population growth is limited by environmental factors, especially by the available resources and space.
Essential Knowledge: ERT-3.F.2
Resource availability and the total resource base are limited and finite over all scales of time.
Essential Knowledge: ERT-3.F.3
When the resources needed by a population for growth are abundant, population growth usually accelerates.
Essential Knowledge: ERT-3.F.4
When the resource base of a population shrinks, the increased potential for unequal distribution of resources will ultimately result in increased mortality, decreased fecundity, or both, resulting in population growth declining to, or below, carrying capacity.
