Mastery Test Chapter 5 Flashcards
Carrying capacity
The number of a species can fit in a area
Population density
Density of a population
Logistic growth
When growth rate is lower than the carying compasity
Emigration
Migration
Imigration
Immigrat
Exponential growth
When growth rate goes up a lot
Age structure
The life expectcy of different ages
Limiting factor
Resource that limits growth
Density-dependent limiting factors
Disease
Density-independent limiting factors
Natural disasters, unnatural weather
Demography
Study of births and deaths
Demographic transition Competition
Demographic transition chart
Invasive species
Plant or animal that has no specific location
Geographic range
the geographic boundary beyond which a species does not occur, the limit or limits of the range of a species