Vocabulary Practice - Chapter 2: Populations

What term describes the number of individuals per unit area?

• Population distribution

• Population density

• Age structure

• Carrying capacity

What is the term for the way individuals are spaced out across their range?

• Population density

• Population distribution

• Demography

• Limiting factor

Which term refers to the number of males and females of each age in a population?

• Age structure

• Population density

• Logistic growth

• Demographic transition

What is the movement of individuals into an area occupied by an existing population called?

• Emigration

• Immigration

• Demography

• Limiting factor

What is the movement of individuals out of an area called?

• Immigration

• Emigration

• Logistic growth

• Carrying capacity

Which growth pattern occurs when individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate?

• Logistic growth

• Exponential growth

• Demographic transition

• Limiting factor

What is the growth pattern called in which a population’s growth slows and then stops after a period of rapid increase?

• Exponential growth

• Logistic growth

• Carrying capacity

• Age structure

What is the largest number of individuals of a particular species that a particular environment can support?

• Limiting factor

• Carrying capacity

• Population density

• Demography

What do we call a factor that causes population growth to decrease?

• Limiting factor

• Carrying capacity

• Immigration

• Exponential growth

Which type of limiting factor depends on population density?

• Density-independent limiting factor

• Density-dependent limiting factor

• Carrying capacity

• Age structure