CH8 ES

Largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support...  

• carrying capacity
• population crash
• lag phase
• mutualism

Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are often __________.

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

number of organisms per unit area/volume

• carrying capacity

• limiting factor

• total population

• population density

A group of the same species of organism living in the same place​

• Hang out

• Pod

• Density

• Population

The Amount by which a Population Size Changes in an Given Time Period​

• Population

• Population Density

• Population Growth

• Rate of change

What growth model has an J-shaped curve?

• Logistic

• Exponential

factors that affect a population depending on its size​

- these include food, predation, parasitism, and disease​

• Density-Dependent factor

• Density-Independent factors

affect all populations similarly regardless of population size.​ Examples include: natural disasters, rapid climate changes (drought or floods), and human activity and disturbances ​

• Density-Dependent factors

• Density-Independent factors

A relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit. 

• Mutualism 
• Competition
• Parasitsm 
• Commensalism 

A relationship in which two species live closely together.

• resource
• mutualism
• succession
• symbiosis