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The number of individuals that the population contains.
What is population size?
The distribution of individuals among different ages in a population.
What is age structure?
An animal's interactions with its environment is this.
What is interdependence?
All the interacting organisms living in an area.
What is a community?
Organisms that do not regulate their internal conditions vs organisms that do.
What is conformers vs regulators?
Measures how crowded a population is.
What is population density.
A pattern of increase in a number due to a steady growth rate is called exponential growth. The observation that populations can grow in this pattern is called this.
What is an exponential model of population growth?
The death rate and birth rate in a population.
What is natality and mortality?
All the members of a species living in one area at one time.
What is a population?
A model showing the predation of species and the predation of its predator.
How long on average an individual is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
The this of population growth builds on the exponential model but accounts for the influence of limiting factors.
What is the logistic model.
A long-term state of reduced activity during periods of unfavorable conditions.
What is Dormancy?
Where an organism lives vs its role in its ecosystem.
What is habitat vs niche?
Put equivalent words in the same order as the following, then answer the question. Detritivore, herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. Name the category these are part of.
What is a decomposer/scavenger, plant-eater, meat-eater, and animal that eats both? What are trophic levels?
The spatial distribution of individuals within the population.
What is dispersion?
Any factor, such as space, that restrains the growth of a population is called this.
What is a limiting factor?
The thin volume of Earth and its atmosphere that supports life.
What is the biosphere?
Includes temperature, humidity, oxygen, and salinity.
What are abiotic factors?
Enter the answers to the following. Positive positive, positive neutral, and negative neutral. These are categories of this.
What is mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, and Symbiosis?
Birth rate minus death rate equals:
What is growth rate?
Floods, fires, and droughts that affect the species no matter its density.
What are density independent factors?
Includes all the organisms and the non-living environment found in a particular place.
What is an ecosystem?
Adaptation within the life of an individual.
What is acclimation?