Complete the statement:
If the birth rate is greater than the death rate, the population will generally ____________
If the birth rate is greater than the death rate, the population will generally increase
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What is emmigration
when a organism or species leaves a community
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Explain how space is a limiting factor?
organism needs room to grow. If you plant flowers to close together then their roots will run out of room. Some flowers would die, decreasing the size of the population
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what happens when population rate =death rate
the size of the population would stay the same.
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What is global warming?
refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans
refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans
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Explain when food would become a limiting factor
Example: when the trees can not produce enough food in order for population to survive.
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Finish this statement.
If death rate >, birth rate, population size ________
If death rate >, birth rate, population size decreases
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the largest population size that an ecosystem can support?
What is carrying capacity
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What is a limiting factor
A limiting factor is an environmental factor that causes a population to decrease.
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Birth rate is greater than the death rate. Population still increasing.
Birth rate is greater than the death rate. Population still increasing.
400 rabbits are born in one year, 200 rabbits emigrate to a new ecosystem and 100 rabbits die. What would happen to the population size?