Population Ecology

Which of the following describes a population that is distributed evenly across an area?

• Random

• Clumped

• Uniform

• Crowded

The specific environment in which an organism lives.

• Logistic growth

• Habitat

• Carrying Capacity

• Environment

Anything an organism needs to survive.

• biotic potential

• resource

• population dispersion

• competition

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Graph that shows the likelihood of death for an individual.

• Exponential curve

• Logistic curve

• Survivorship curve

• Carrying capacity

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

The arrival of an individual from outside a given area (move into)

• Degradation

• Emigration

• Migration

• Immigration

Departure of individuals from a given area/population

• Degradation

• Emigration

• Migration

• Immigration

When a population increases each year by a fixed percentage

• Exponential growth

• Logistic growth

• Carrying capacity

• Population density

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

Characteristics of the environment that control/restrain a population's growth

• Population density

• Migration

• Population dispersion

• Limiting factor

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

the maximum number of individuals that an environment can sustain

• Limiting factor

• Carrying capacity

• Biotic potential

• Population dispersion

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Describes how a population's initial increase is slowed down and finally leveled

• Biotic potential

• Logistic growth

• Survivorship curve

• Exponential growth