Overpopulation Flashcards

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Limiting factors that affect populations that are used by affects created by increased population

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Density dependent

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The process used to determine a population of a group of organisms that are mobile and harder to track

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Mark recapture

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The dramatic increase in a populations total over a short period of time

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Exponential

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The process used to determine the population of a group of organisms that are easily identified and located

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Census

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Another term for exponential growth

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R selective

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The amount of food energy available on the planet

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Net primary productivity

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Maximum number of organisms that an ecosystem can indefinitely support

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Carrying capacity

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The study of how organisms interact with their environment

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Ecology

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Things such as Illness lack of space competition lack of food and pollution that cause populations to be reduced

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Limiting factors

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The type of dispersion in which organisms are spread evenly through an ecosystem

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Uniform

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The limiting factors that are not caused by population increases

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Density independent

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The total number of one species in an area of an ecosystem

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Population

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The type of dispersion and which groups of organisms are grouped together closely

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Clumped

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The term used to describe the effect that organisms and people have on their ecosystem that is determined by how many resources they use

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Ecological footprint

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The birthrate minus the death rate of a group of organisms

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Growth rate

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The term for the rise in a population even though the growth rate is decreasing

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Demographic momentum

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The name for substances that cannot be re-created after they are used up

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Nonrenewable resources

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The process of birthrates gradually decreasing it to match Loring a death rates

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Demographic transition

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Another term for caring capacity with in a population

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K selective

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The type of dispersion in which there is no definite pattern or growth of organisms in an ecosystem

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Random

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Shows individuals that have a high probability of surviving through early and middle life but a rapid decline into surviving later life

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Type one survivorship curve

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Roughly constant mortality rate for the species through its entire life

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Type to survivorship curve

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Few individuals will live into adulthood and die as they get older

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Type III survivorship curve

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Three limiting factors in an ecosystem

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Whether food source space

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Three reasons why the net primary productivity production of 21 billion is not realistic

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Humans are not the only organisms on earth our diet will not consist of vegetables only we cannot live without natural forces