5339360742 | population | all individuals of a species in a given environment | ![]() | 0 |
5339376628 | exponential growth | continuously growing; or ever growing | ![]() | 1 |
5339383580 | type of growth of human population | exponential | ![]() | 2 |
5339388026 | carrying capacity | maximum population that can be support indefinitely in a given environment | ![]() | 3 |
5339433450 | density dependent factors | population limiting factors that increase in intensity as a population increases in size | ![]() | 4 |
5339442518 | density independent factors | influence growth rates regardless of population size | ![]() | 5 |
5339448422 | examples of density dependent and independent factors | independent- climate change, severe droughts dependent-limited food supply, increase in toxic waste, increase risk of infectious disease | 6 | |
5339401174 | 5 types of human impact | habitat degradation, introduced species, over exploitation of species, pollution | ![]() | 7 |
5339466938 | types of pollution | air, soil, and, water | ![]() | 8 |
5339512918 | co-evolve | pairs or groups of species adapt to each other through natural selection | 9 | |
5339524532 | one of the reasons introduced species in an environment is a problem-because the species did not_______ | coevolve | 10 | |
5339527442 | overexploitation | human use rate of a species outweighs the species rate of reproduction | 11 | |
5339540400 | habitat degradation | habitat destruction through agriculture, industrial, and residential | ![]() | 12 |
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