How Populations Grow Review

Describes the way individuals are spaced out across their range

• population distribution

• population density

• carrying capacity

• age structure

largest number of individuals of a particulat species that a particular enviorment can support

• population distribution

• population density

• carrying capacity

• age structure

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number of individuals per unit of area

• exponential growth

• population density

• logistic growth

• carrying capacity

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growth pattern in which a population's growth slows and then stops following a period of exponential growth

• emigration

• population distribution

• logistic growth

• exponential growth

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movement of individuals into an area occupied by an exiting population

• immigration

• emigration

• age structure

• exponential growth

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

• logistic growth

• exponential growth

• immigration

• emigration

movement of individuals out of an area

• logistic growth

• exponential growth

• immigration

• emigration

the number of males and females of each age in a population

• immigration

• population density

• carrying capacity

• age structure

Ecologists study populations by examining their ​ (a)   , ​ growth rate, ​ (b)   and ​ (c)   , and ​ age structure

• geographic range
• density
• distribution

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

​ ​ (a)   , ​ (b)   , and the rate at which individual enter or leave a population all affect population growth

• death rate
• birth rate
• immigration
• emigration

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