chapter 8

Question 1

population

Answer 1

all the inhabitants of a particular town

Question 2

density

Answer 2

the degree of compactness of a substance

Question 3

dispersion

Answer 3

the action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area

Question 4

growth rate

Answer 4

measures its change from one period to another

Question 5

reproductive

Answer 5

relating to or effecting reproduction

Question 6

potential

Answer 6

having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future

Question 7

exponential growth

Answer 7

growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number size

Question 8

carrying capacity

Answer 8

the number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container

Question 9

niche

Answer 9

a comfortable or suitable position in life or employment

Question 10

competition

Answer 10

the activity or condition of competing

Question 11

predation

Answer 11

the preying of one animal on others

Question 12

parasitism

Answer 12

the practice of living as a parasite in or on another organism

Question 13

mutualism

Answer 13

the doctrine that mutual dependence is necessary to social well being

Question 14

commensalism

Answer 14

an association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm

Question 15

symbiosis

Answer 15

interaction between two different organism living in close physical association typically to the advantage of both