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a description of how many individuals fit into particular age categories
a) age structure
b) growth rate
c) exponential growth rate
d) carrying capacity
population growth slowed as population size increased because there was a limit to how many individuals the food supply could sustain
a) carrying capacity; k
b) limiting resource
c) commensalism
d) community
a type of relationship in which one species benefits but the other is neither harmed nor helped
a) commensalism
b) mutualism
c) competition
d) community
incorporates all of the populations of organisms within a given area
a) carrying capacity; k
b) predation
c) community
d) limiting resource
the study of species interactions, which determine the survival of a species in a habitat
a) overshoot
b) community ecology
c) mutualism
d) competition
the struggle of individuals to obtain a limiting resource
a) limiting resource
b) overshoot
c) ecosystem
d) competition
states that two species competing for the same limiting resource cannot coexist
a) competition
b) competitive exclusion principle
c) carrying capacity
d) resource
strips of habitat that connect separated populations that the animal travels across
a) corridors
b) carry capacity
c) competition
d) limiting resource
influences an individuals probability of survival and reproduction in a manner that depends on the size of the population
a) density - dependent factors
b) corridors
c) die - off
d) overshoot
have the same effect on an individuals probability of survival and amount of reproduction at any population size
a) die - off
b) density - independent factors
c) density - dependent factors
d) competition
population crash usually experienced after the overshoot of the carrying capacity
a) die - off
b) corridors
c) overshoot
d) competition
the predictable replacement of one group of species by another group of species over time
a) overshoot
b) corridors
c) commensalism
d) ecological succession
species that create or maintain habitat for other species
a) ecosystem engineers
b) die - off
c) corridors
d) ecosystem
tells us that, under ideal conditions, the future size of the population depends on the current size of the population, the intrinsic rate of the population and the amount of time over which the population grow
a) carrying capacity
b) exponential growth model
c) ecosystem
d) competition
the number of offspring an individual can produce in a given time period, minus the deaths of the individual or offsprings during the same period
a) growth rate
b) population growth model
c) predator mediated competition
d) carrying capacity
consumes plants as prey
a) overshoot
b) die - off
c) herbivores
d) competition
under ideal conditions with unlimited resources available, every population as a particular maximum potential for growth
a) intrinsic growth rate
b) metapopulation
c) growth rate
d) exponential growth rate
a species that plays a role in its community
a) k - selected species
b) logistic growth model
c) keystone species
d) parasites
species that have a low intrinsic growth rate which causes their populations to increase slowly until they reach the carrying capacity of the environment
a) k - selected species
b) keystone species
c) pioneer species
d) parasites
a resource that population cannot live without and which occurs in quantities lower than the population would require to increase in size
a) parasites
b) overshoot
c) carrying capacity
d) limiting resource
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