Population Ecology

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Why don't populations grow indefinitely?

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limiting factors

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What is the arrow pointing at?

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carrying capacity

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Parasites, disease, and predators are examples of what type of limiting factors?

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density dependent

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Carrying capacity

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The number of individuals an area can carry

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Immigration

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the movement into an area.

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Emigration

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the movement out of an area

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What happens to a population when it grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity?

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The population starts to die off to return to carrying capacity.

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What would increase the carrying capacity of an ecosystem? Options: increase in predators, disease, increase in available food, drought

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increase in available food

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A group of organisms of the same species living in the same place at the same time is called a(n) _________. Options: ecosystem, population, community, organism

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population

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Any factor that limits population growth

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Limiting Factor