Population Ecology Vocabulary

The number of females and males of each age contained in a population...

• limiting factor

• demography

• age structure

• logistic growth

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

Factors that are influential only when population density reaches a certain level...

• density-dependent limiting factor

• limiting factor

• logistic growth

• density-independent limiting factor

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

The maximum number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support...

• demography

• emigration

• exponential growth

• carrying capacity

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NGSS.HS-LS2-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

When a population's growth slows then stops, following a period of exponential growth...

• immigration

• logistic growth

• emigration

• population density

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

The larger a population gets, the faster it grows...

• immigration

• exponential growth

• logistic growth

• demography

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

Movement into a range from elsewhere...

• immigration

• emigration

• demographic transition

• density-independent limiting factor

The number of individuals per unit of area...

• limiting factor

• carrying capacity

• population density

• density-dependent limiting factor

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

Movement out of a range...

• demographic transition

• logistic growth

• immigration

• emigration

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

A factor that controls the growth of a population...

• limiting factor

• exponential growth

• density-dependent limiting factor

• demographic transition

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

The study of human populations...

• emigration

• age structure

• demography

• immigration

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2