Population Growth
Type of growth for populations that increase in numbers without any limits to their growth
What is Exponential Growth?
Population growth regulation where population density DOES affects growth rate and mortality
What is density-dependent factors?
The proportion of a population in different age classes
What is Age Structure?
An organism that feeds off another without immediately killing the organism it is feeding off of
What is a parasite?
The statistical study of population changes over time: birth rates, death rates, and life expectancy
What is Demography?
Type of growth for populations that limits become introduced and more intense as the population grows
What is Logistic Growth?
Population growth regulation where mortality will happen in the population regardless of the density
What is density-independent factors?
A policy in China set to moderate population control
What is the One-Child Policy?
Symbiotic relationship where both species benefit from their interaction
What is Mutualism?
Populations are characterized by population ____ and their population ____
What is size and density?
The organisms that best displays Exponential Growth
What is Bacteria?
When populations share the environment with other species competing for the same resources
What is Interspecific Competition?
A new hotly debated socio-political issue concerning our future caused by human activity
What is Climate Change?
A relationship where one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefited
What is a commensal relationship?
Method used to estimate the population size of smaller mobile organisms such as mammals
What is the mark and recapture technique?
The growth rate equation combines the _____ rate and _____ rate
What is the birth rate and death rate?
A ____ population can recover more quickly than a ____ population after suffering mortalities by density-independent factors
What is dense;sparse?
An indicator of higher mortality rates and cause of lower birth rates
What is Declining Life Expectancy?
Term used to describe the number of species living in a habitat or other unit
What is Species Richness?
A ____ distribution may be seen in plants that drop their seeds straight to the ground or in animals that live in social groups
What is a clumped distribution?
The maximum population size that a particular environment can sustain
What is Carrying Capacity?
__-selected species are adapted to stable, predictable environments. Ex). elephants
What is K?
Long-term population growth of the human population carries the potential risks of ____, ____, and ____.
What is famine, disease, and large-scale death?
The "base" of a community that has the greatest influence on its overall structure
What is Foundation Species?
A graph of the number of individuals surviving at each age interval versus time
What is a survivorship curve?