APES Population Flashcards

7456464493	Carrying Capacity	Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support	0
7456470029	Reproductive Strategies	Strategies a population can use to potentially increase the species	1
7456476776	Survivorship	Percentage of cohort surviving to a certain age	2
7456484454	Overshoots	measure of extent to which population exceeds carrying its capacity of its environment	3
7456484455	Natality	the ratio of the number of births to the size of the population; birth rate	4
7456488831	Crude birth rate	the number of births per 1,000 individuals per year	5
7456492831	Crude death rate	the number of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year	6
7456499142	Total growth rate	include immigration, emigration, births, and deaths	7
7456502737	Natural increase	the growth rate of a population; the difference between birthrate and death rate	8
7456505552	Life expectancy	A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live	9
7456505553	Dependency ratio	the number of people who can't work	10
7456510286	Demographic transition	change in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates	11