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Show all your work (diagrams, tables, or computations) in your Student Answer Booklet.
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Write your answer to question 44 in the space provided in vour Student Answer Booklet.
The graph below shows the birth rate and the death rate of a mouse population ovet a
three-year period. The immigration rate and the emigration rate of the population are equal.
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Birth Rate and Death Rate
of a Mouse Population
Year 3
Year 2
Year 1
Time
Key
Death rate
Birth rate
a. Describe what happens to the size of the population for each year shown on the graph.
Explain your answers.
b. Identify three factors that could affect the death rate of the mouse population, and explain
why each factor affects the death rate.
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