Refer to the Graph Below

question 257

Multiple Choice

Refer to the graph below. A mother sea turtle comes to shore, lays hundreds of eggs, buries them in the sand, and leaves.Later, the baby sea turtles hatch and waddle into the water, where they live their lives.Every year, surviving sea turtles find their way back to the same beach to lay their own eggs, guided by ocean currents and magnetic fields.This organism's life cycle most likely follows which of these types of survivorship curves?

• A) Type I because the population of adult sea turtles is very large
• B) Type II because ocean dangers are great regardless of turtle age
• C) Type III because baby sea turtles are at greatest risk for predation
• D) Type II because food availability will slowly decline as turtles age
• E) Type II because size is not a factor in sea turtle mortality

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