Human Impact on the Environment Flashcards

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