This is the number of individuals the environment can support in a given area
What is carrying capacity?
100
This is anything in a population that restricts the population size
What is limiting factor?
100
These are materials people gather from the environment
What are natural resources?
100
This pollution is caused from people putting harmful things into the water
What is water pollution?
100
This is a term given to an organism that is not native to an ecosystem
What is invasive species?
200
When the population size exceeds the carrying capacity, the number of births with decrease and the number of deaths will do this, thus bringing the population back down to the carrying capacity
What is increase?
200
These factors limit a population (no matter the size of the population) and include unusual weather, natural disasters, and seasonal cycles
What are density-independent factors?
200
Things that can be replaced in one's lifetime are call this and include wood, cotton, and water
What is renewable?
200
This is the release of petroleum, or oil, into the environment from human activity
What is an oil spill?
200
This is the term that describes the measured rise in the Earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures
What is global warming?
300
Logistic growth is sometimes called this because it levels out at a certain point
What is S-shaped curve?
300
This of a population is the change in population size per unit time
What is growth rate?
300
Things that cannot be replaced in one's lifetime are called this and include coal, oil, and natural gas
What is non-renewable?
300
This decreases the biodiversity of plants and animals in the ecosystem and include agriculture, logging, mining, and building cities
What is urbanization?
300
The Earth's temperature rise is generally attributed to the increase in these in the atmosphere
What are greenhouse gases?
400
This of a population refers to the number of organisms per unit area
What is density?
400
These are factors that are phenomenon, such as competition and disease, which only become limiting when a population in a given area reaches a certain size
What are density-dependent factors?
400
This type of pollution is caused from people putting harmful things into the air
What is air pollution?
400
These are a chemical agent used to kill damaging or harmful organisms, usually animals
What are pesticides?
400
Trapped solar heat within the Earth's atmosphere is called this
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
This of a population refers to the pattern of where the organism live
What is distribution?
500
This occurs when the population growth starts out slowly and then increases rapidly as the number of reproducing individuals increase
What is exponential growth?
500
This pollution is caused by people putting harmful things into the soil
What is soil pollution?
500
When a species is on this list, it means that it is threatened and that very few organisms of that type are alive
What is the endangered species list?
500
Without the Earth's heat trapping processes, the average global temperature would be this