Chapter 4.2 Describing Populations

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What is the term for when populations decrease because animals are moving out of a population?

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Emigration

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What is the term for when organisms move into a population from another environment?

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Immigration

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What dispersion pattern usually results from resources not being evenly spread out in the environment?

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Clumped

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True or False: Limiting factors can help keep a population from getting too large.

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True

Front

What is the term for the maximum population size that an environment can sustain?

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Carrying capacity

Front

What is the term for the arrangement of individuals in a space?

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Population dispersion

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What are factors that can limit the growth of a population?

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Limiting factors

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What is the term for a population that is evenly spaced out in an environment?

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Uniform dispersion

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What is the term for a population that is randomly distributed in an environment?

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Random dispersion

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What is the difference between immigration and emigration?

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Immigration is the movement into a population, while emigration is the movement out of a population.