Vocabulary
Types of Populations
Survival Strategies
Misc
Misc.
100
Things such as light, water, nutrients, minerals and oxygen that can affect a populations ability to grow.
What is an abiotic 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
How an organism might react to an extreme event such as major drought in order to survive another year (think of the finches we talked about).
What is stop reproduction for a season to save needed resources?
100

How would you describe a density dependent limiting factor?

What is a factor that is directly impacted by the population size? Example, competition, disease, shelter, reproduciton.
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 of organisms within a habitat.
What is dispersion?
200
Two factors that might cause carrying capacity in an ecosystem to change.
What is food, water, ecological conditions, space, shelter?
200

How would you describe a density independent limiting factor?

What is a factor that doesn't depend on the population size? Example...Natural disasters, weather

200

A virus wipes out over 60% of the mouse population in an ecosystem which makes them much more difficult to hunt. What type of limiting factor is this?

What is a density dependent limiting factor?

300
The number of organisms a region can support without adverse effects on the environment.
What is carrying capacity?
300
The three specific patterns of dispersion we learned in class.
What is clumped, random and uniform?
300
Organisms like zebras run in herds to avoid predators, this is a pattern called:
What is clumped dispersion.
300
The type of population dispersion that most flowers and plants adhere to.
What is random disperson?
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 growth where the growth rate decreases as the population reaches carrying capacity.
What is logistic growth?
400
An organism like an elephant which produces very few offspring in its lifetime, the gestation period is very long and live in a stable environment.
What is K strategists?
400
The type of population dispersion that penguins adhere to.
What is uniform dispersion?
400

A volcano erupts killing off 75% of living organisms at every level of the food chain. What typ of limiting factor is this?

What is a density independent factor?

500
The mechanism of biological evolution that was first introduced by Charles Darwin.
What is natural selection?
500
Population Density of a herd of deer that includes 50 individuals in a 2km2 area.
What is 25 deer per km?
500
Organisms which live in unstable environments, reproduce many young in a short timespan evolved this type of strategy.
What are R strategists?
500

Who is the best team in the NFL?

The Kansas City Chiefs

500
The aspect that each of these case studies (St Matthews Island Reindeer, Galapogos Island Finches, Isle of Royale Moose) have in common and what makes each of them easier to study.
What is isolation?
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