Human Population Flashcards
Calculate human Population growth rate
Gr= { [(b-d) + (i-e)] / Population size } ×100 over a year
Define environmental carrying capacity
The maximum population the environment can support for an indefinite time
What are 3 stages of natural population growth
Lag phase, exponential phase, stationary phase
Name 2 reasons I to hope start global Human population exponential growth
1) industrial revolution
2) medical advances is
Name factors that prevent constant exponential growth of populations In natural environment
Disease predators limitation of food and other resources change in food supply
Define M DCS
More developed countries example United States
Define LDC
Less developed countries example Uganda
Name solution which will prevent rapid population growth and LDC S
Contraceptives, in child labor, educates, make it illegal to have early marriages for children
Name 4 stages of demographic transition model. What are the birth rates death rates and total population.
Graph
Define ecological footprint of human population on environments
The sum of all cropland, grazing land, forest and fishing grounds required to produce the food, fiber and 10 timber in could it consumes, to absorb the waste emitted when it uses energy and it to provide a space for its infrastructure
Define ecological communities
A group of interacting species living in the same place
Define predators lass pray relation in ecoystem give example
Any interaction in which one organism consumes another example lion hunts hyenas
Define Keystone species
SPC that plays a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community and whose impact on the community is greater than would be expected
Define ecological section name to major differences between primary and secondary
Processing was a biological community develops over time. Primary starts with rocks secondary started soil. Primaries a longer process as for secondary shorter
Define symbiosis. Name 3 types
Relationship between 2 species. Mutualism, Parisitism, commensalism