Vocabulary
Types of Populations
Survival Strategies
Miscellaneous I
Miscellaneous II
100

Things such as light, water, nutrients, minerals and oxygen that can affect a populations ability to grow.

What is limiting factor?

100
Growth of a population in which the rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.
What is exponential growth?
100

Seasonal movement of organisms into and out of a population is known as...

What is migration?

100

These types of structures can tell the number of organisms of a specific age that live in a population.

What are Age Structure Diagrams?

100
Name 2 things of the 4 that affect population growth.
What is birth rate, death rate, immigration, emigration?
200
The movement of organisms out of an area or population.
What is a emigration?
200

The pattern of distribution where organisms are scattered throughout. 

What is random distribution?

200
Two factors that might cause carrying capacity in an ecosystem to change.
What is food, water, ecological conditions, space, shelter?
200

The most abundant bird in North America went extinct; primarily due to human overhunting.  What is the name of this bird?

What is the Passenger Pigeon?

200
Things such as weather, natural disasters, pollution, sudden climate change that can affect populations.
What is a density independent limiting factor?
300
The number of organisms a region can support without adverse effects on the environment.
What is carrying capacity?
300

Type of population growth that begins as exponential, but then reaches carrying capacity, and eventually levels out. 

What is logistic growth?

300

Organisms like zebras run in herds to avoid predators, this is distribution is called...

What is clumped distribution?

300

The Golden Toad primarily went extinct due to what?

What is Climate Change?  Which lead to drought and the Lifting Cloud Base Hypothesis. 
300
The movement of organisms into an environment or area.
What is a immigration?
400
The number of organisms per unit of area.
What is population density?
400

Type of distribution in which organisms are spread out equally in a pattern. 

What is uniform distribution?

400

The ability to reproduce under ideal conditions with enough space, food, water, and lack of predators is known as...

What is Biotic Potential?

400

As humans, we typically live a long life into our elder years.  We can describe this type of survivorship as what?

What is a Type I Survivorship Curve?

400

The movement of the clouds from the cloud forest regions moving further north due to increasing climates is known as the...

What is the Lifting Cloud Base Hypothesis?

500

The number of individuals in a given population at a given time.

What is population size?

500

Population Density of a herd of deer that includes 50 individuals in a 2km2 area.

What is 25 deer per km?

500

Curves that describe the number of survivors over time is called...

What are survivorship Curves?

500

Capturing organisms, marking them, and then recapturing them is known as which method of estimating populations?

What is Mark and Recapture?

500

Counting the number of organisms in five areas (of 25 possible areas) and multiplying by the number of areas is which method of estimating populations?

What is Random Sampling?

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