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(n.) the area inhabited by a population
What is geographical range?
100
Earthquake
Which of the following is a density independent limiting factor?
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Sunlight, rain, food, shelter, water, disease, competition.
What are some examples of limiting factors?
100
affects all populations in similar ways, regardless of population size and density
What is "density independent limiting factors"?
100
Earthquake
Which of the following is a density independent limiting factor?
200
(n.) a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume
What is population density?
200
Immigration
What is the movement of organisms into a range called?
200
When an organism fights another for limited resources
What is competition?
200
growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size
What is exponential growth?
200
a small, scattered population
Which would be least likely to be affected by a density dependent limiting factor?
300
Random Distribution, Uniform Distribution, and Clumped Distribution
What are three patterns of population distribution?
300
Demography
Which of the following is NOT one of the factors that play a role in population growth rate?
300
the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
What is parasitism?
300
moment when logistic growth occurs when a population’s growth slows and then stops
What is logistic growth?
300
temperature
Each of the following is a density density limiting factor EXCEPT
400
One process is moving INTO its range compared to moving OUT of its range
What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
400
The death rate is becoming higher than the birth rate.
Which of the following could describe a population that is decreasing in size?
400
Lowers ability to fight disease and causes some females to neglect or even eat their young
What does overcrowding cause in animal populations?
400
Population grows, then slows, then stabalizes.
What are the three phases of logistic growth?
400
100%
What is the average of the tests going to be?
500
(n.) how individuals in a population are spaced out across the range of the population—randomly, uniformly, or mostly concentrated in clumps
What is population distribution?
500
The death rate may rise
If a population grows bigger than its carrying capacity of the environment, which of these are most likely to happen?
500
competition, predation, herbivory, parasitism, disease, and stress from overcrowding
What are some density dependent limiting factors?
500
the maximum number of individuals of a particular species that a particular environment can support
What is carrying capacity?
500
Janey, Hannah, Chase, Ben, Noah, Elijah, and Jacques
What are the names of the group members?