Population Ecology

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Emigration is

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the movement out of an area

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Why don't populations grow indefinitely?

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limiting factors

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What is an example of a density-independent (Abiotic) limiting factor? Options: food, parasites, disease, pollution

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pollution

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What is the arrow pointing at?

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carrying capacity

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Parasites, disease, 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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(Im)migration is ...

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the movement into an area

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The exponential graph is a graph that shows us population size increasing quickly, which one below shows us that

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One of the factors that can change the size of population is...

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Numbers of births

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The number of people in a defined area such as a square kilometre.

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population density