Population Dynamics
Any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the growth, size, or distribution of a population.
Limiting factor
The study of interactions among living organisms and between organisms and their environment
What is ecology?
The term for the environmental limit on the number of organisms that can be supported over time.
What is carrying capacity?
What is a limiting factor?
Any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the growth, size, or distribution of a population.
What is biodiversity
The variety of life on Earth, including genes, species, and ecosystems.
Emigration
When individuals move out of a population.
The practice of cultivating soil, raising crops, and producing livestock.
What is agriculture?
This type of growth produces an S-shaped curve because growth slows as resources become limited.
A population growth pattern that slows as the population approaches the environment’s maximum supportable size.
What is logistic growth?
What is a density-dependent limiting factor?
A limiting factor whose effect becomes stronger as population density increases.
The addition of substances or energy to the environment faster than natural processes can safely disperse, break down, recycle, or store them.
What is pollution?
Carrying Capacity
Maximum number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support.
The study of how the environment works and how humans interact with it.
Environmental Science
If more people are dying than babies being born, there would be a population...
decrease
Competition for food, disease, and predation are examples of this type of limiting factor.
What is a density-dependent limiting factor?
What is biodiversity?
Protecting this helps maintain genetic variety, species variety, and healthy ecosystems.
immigration
The movement of individuals into a population from another location.
Natural Resources
A biological, mineral, or aesthetic asset provided by nature that can be used for human benefit.
A population growth pattern that begins slowly and then increases rapidly, forming a J-shaped curve.
What is exponential growth?
What is a density-independent limiting factor?
A limiting factor that affects populations regardless of their density.
Air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution are major types of this environmental proble
What is pollution?
Name one limiting factor for mosquitos.
Standing water
This growth pattern makes an S-shaped graph as a population reaches carrying capacity.
Logistic growth
A forest that can sustainably support a maximum of 100 deer based on the available food, water, and shelter is an example of the forests what?
Carrying capacity
Droughts, floods, wildfires, and severe storms are examples of this type of limiting factor.
What is a density-independent limiting factor?
This human activity depends on natural resources and can affect biodiversity, soil, water, and air quality.
What is agriculture?
What is agriculture?