Population

Question 1

What will populations grow until?

Answer 1

Populations will grow until they become stressed, (share resources, food, water, shelter, competition)

Question 2

What is carrying capacity

Answer 2

Caring capacity is known as equilibrium (#of births - deaths)

Question 3

What are limiting factors?

Answer 3

Are environmental factors that prevent an increase in the number of organisms in a population or prevents them from moving into new habitat

Question 4

What are abiotic limiting factors

Answer 4

Sunlight, water, soil, air, natural disasters such as fires, storms and droughts and human disturbances such as logging and pollution

Question 5

What are biotic limiting factors?

Answer 5

Competition for resources, predators, reliance on other organisms for survival mutualism, disease, and Parasitism

Question 6

Define steady state

Answer 6

Most species population will naturally go up and down through out the years because there are natural limiting factors keeping their numbers in check

Question 7

What species have exponential growth?

Answer 7

The human population is the only species other than bacteria or viruses that will grow beyond the carrying capacity which is called exponential growth