Carrying Capacity General Vocab

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Carrying capacity of the graph?

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1000

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If a population exceeds its carrying capacity,

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the population starts to die off.

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Causes of population increase

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all of these

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Regulates population size:

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a limiting factor

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When death rate equals birth rate...

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population stays the same.

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Death rate rises, birth rate lowers...

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population decreases

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High birth rate & low death rate...

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Population increases.

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Largest number of individuals an area can support is called its _______.

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carrying capacity

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Living or once-living organisms in an ecosystem are called:

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biotic factor

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Not an abiotic factor:

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