The total number of individuals making up the population.
What is population size.
100
A type of dispersion where individuals are grouped in tight clusters.
What is clumped.
100
A count of a small portion of the individuals in a population.
What is a sample.
100
Moving out of an area.
What is emigration.
100
A type of dispersion where individuals are spaced even distances from each other.
What is uniform.
200
A spreadsheet that helps an ecologist predict how populations will change over time.
What is life table.
200
The type of curve on a graph that represents exponential growth of a population. Slang term for graph curve.
What is J-Shaped curve.
200
A type of dispersion where individuals can be found anywhere in an area.
What is random.
200
Moving into an area.
What is immigration.
200
This describes the spacing of individuals in the population in relation to each other.
What is dispersion.
300
What the unknown N represents in the Lincoln-Peterson Estimate equation.
What is population size.
300
A large area divided into smaller sections.
What is a quadrant.
300
The number of individuals per unit area.
What is population density.
300
A part of an ecosystem that slows or prevents population growth.
What is a limiting factor.
300
The population size for a given area that humans will tolerate.
What is cultural carrying capacity.
400
A sampling method used to estimate population size in which individuals are caught, marked in some way, and released back into the population. After time has passed, another group of individuals is caught and checked for marks.
What is Mark-Recapture.
400
The number of individuals a given area can support at a given time.
What is carrying capacity.
400
A period of growth during which a population increases by multiplication rather than addition; when a population increases in proportion to its size.
What is exponential growth.
400
Death that adds to a population's overall mortality. Causes a population size to decrease over time.
What is additive mortality.
400
A straight line of a known length used to sample a population.
What is a transect.
500
A factor that affects a population regardless of the density of the population. Ex:Natural Disaster
What is a density-independent factor.
500
A simple method of mark-recapture sampling equation.
What is the Lincoln-Peterson Estimate.
500
A factor that affects a population in ways related to the population's density. Ex: War, Famine, Disease.....
What is a density-dependent factor.
500
Population change expressed on an individual-by-individual basis; the amount a single individual contributes to population growth or decline.
What is per capita rate of growth
500
Different causes of death that make up for mortality that would naturally occur in a population.