Ch 2 Vocab

number of individuals per unit area

• population density

• carrying capacity

• limiting factor

• population distribution

the way individuals are spaced out across their range

• population density

• immigration

• emigration

• population distribution

movement of individuals into an area

• logistic growth

• immigration

• emigration

• exponential growth

movement of individuals out of an area

• logistic growth

• immigration

• emigration

• exponential growth

growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate

• logistic growth

• carrying capacity

• population density

• exponential growth

growth pattern in which a populations growth slows and then stops following exponential growth

• logistic growth

• carrying capacity

• population density

• limiting factor

largest number of individuals of a particular species that a particular environment can support

• logistic growth

• carrying capacity

• distribution

• demography

factor that causes population growth to decrease

• logistic growth

• carrying capacity

• distribution

• limiting factor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

scientific study of human populations

• logistic growth

• carrying capacity

• distribution

• demography

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

a limiting factor that depends on population density

• density dependent limiting factor

• density independent limiting factor

• distribution

• limiting factor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4