Ch. 5 Populations

Is the pictured graph growth, decay, or linear or none?  

• Exponential Growth
• Exponential Decay
• Linear
• None

The area inhabited by a population is 

• geographic range
• age structure

________ _______ refers to the individuals per unit area.

• population density
• growth rate

This refers to how individuals are spaced out across the range 

• population distribution
• geographic range

___________ _____________ determines whether a population increases, decreases, or stays the same. 

• immigration
• growth rate

____________ ___________--the number of males and females of an age a population contains. 

• population density
• age structure

_________________ is the movement of individuals into an area

• immigration
• emigration

__________________ movement of individuals out of an area. 

• emigration
• immigration

something that controls the growth or size of a population is a _____________ ___________.

• limiting factor
• contributing factor

one limiting factor is competition

• true
• false