Misc.
The number of a certain type of organism in an area.
What is population?
The general direction that data shows over time (increasing, decreasing, or staying the same).
What is a data trend?
An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
What is a predator?
When organisms fight for limited resources such as food, water, or space.
What is competition?
Population growth that starts fast, slows down, and levels off at carrying capacity (S-shaped curve).
What is a logistic growth curve?
An animal that is hunted and eaten.
What is prey?
Any form of water that falls from the sky, including rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation (or rainfall)?
Population growth that grows very fast with no limits (J-shaped curve).
What is an exponential growth curve?
The amount of living material (plants and animals) in an ecosystem.
What is biomass?
The maximum number of organisms an environment can support long-term with its available resources.
What is carrying capacity?
How predators and prey affect each other’s populations.
What is the predator–prey relationship?