Pop Dynamics Classwork questions

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What happens when a population overshoots its carrying capacity?

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There are not enough resources to go around and some animals will die.

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What are Density Dependent Factors?

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Factors that limit a population size but depend on the size of the population.

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What will increase the size of a population?

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Immigration and births.

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What is a density-dependent limiting factor?

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Competition.

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What pattern of growth will a population with limited resources show?

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Logistic growth.

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Define carrying capacity.

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The maximum number of individuals of a species that an environment can support sustainably.

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What is exponential growth?

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A growth pattern where the population size increases rapidly in proportion to the current size.

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What is logistic growth?

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A growth pattern that starts exponentially but slows as the population reaches carrying capacity.

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What are density-independent factors?

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Factors that affect population size regardless of the population's density, such as natural disasters.

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What is emigration?

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The act of leaving one's resident population to settle elsewhere.