Vocab population

What is population size?

• Immigration

• The number of deaths in a population

• The number of individual organisms in a population

• Population growth

What is, "a substance or object required by an organism for survival"?

• Limiting factor

• Resource

• Birth rate

• Biome

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Limiting factor

• A resource which limits the number of individuals in a population

• The largest number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support

• Individuals leaving a population (Decreases Pop.)

• When resource availability is unlimited, the population of an organism living in the ecosystem grows exponentially

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The largest number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support

• Carrying capacity

• Population size

• Limiting factor

When resource availability is unlimited, the population of an organism living in the ecosystem grows exponentially

• Emigration

• Exponential Growth

• Limiting factor

• Population

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The number of births in a population each year (Adds to population size)

• Carrying capacity

• Population increase

• Death rate

• Birth rate

Death rate

• Number of deaths in a population each year (Subtracts from population size)

• The number of births in a population each year (Adds to population size)

• Individuals leaving a population (Decreases Pop.)

• nutritional value

Immigration

• The strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.

• Individuals from one population joining a new population in a different area. (Increases Pop.)

• Individuals leaving a population (Decreases Pop.)

Emigration

• The amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container, especially when great

• Individuals from one population joining a new population in a different area. (Increases Pop.)

• Individuals leaving a population (Decreases Pop.)

• A coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape

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