BIO Chap 5 vocab

the total number of individuals within a defined area at a given time

• population size

• Dispersion

  
  

• density dependent factors

  
  

the pattern of spacing of a population within an area

• population size

• grouping

• Dispersion

  
  

Movement of individuals into a population

• Immigration
• emigration

factor that limits a population more as population density increases

• density independent factors

• density dependent factors

• population density

Largest number of individuals of a population that an environment can support

• population size

• population density

• carrying capacity

the area inhabited by a population

• geographic range
• carrying capacity

• growth rate

Rate of increase or decrease of a population

• growth rate

• birth rate

• death rate

An environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing

• limiting factor

• fear factor

• logistic growth

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areas of the world in which a species lives

• population distribution
• population size

• population density

j-shaped curve showing the rapid increase in an exponentially growing population

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