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The main limiting factor in
the desert?
What is water? (Lack of Water)
An organisms ability to
deal with changing abiotic
conditions
What is tolerance?
Any factor that
prevents the
growth of a
population?
What is a limiting factor?
A factor such as disease
that increases its effect
when the population
becomes more crowded.
What is a density
dependent limiting
factor?
The main limiting
factor in a
grassland.
What is fire?
Succesion that
begins with bare
rock and no living
oraganisms
What is primary
succession?
Succession that
occurs after a
disturbance such
as a forest fire
What is secondary
succesion?
Populations of
organisms that are
the first to grow in an
area.
What are pioneer
species?
Glaciers and volcanoes can
cause the conditions for this
type of succesion
What is primary succession?
Type of succession
pictured below
What is secondary
succesion?
This biome contain
soil that is frozen
year round
(permafrost)
What is the tundra?
The distance from
the equator is
known as this
What is lattitude?
The two most important measurements
in determining a biomes climate.
What are precipitation and
temperature?
This biome is found near the
equator and gets 200cm or
more of rainfall a year.
What is the tropical rain forest?
This biome contains lions,
zebra, and giraffe.
What is the savannah (tropical
grassland)?
Type of growth curve shown
here
What is logistic growth curve (scurve)?
The maximum number
of individuals
an ecosystem can sustain for a
long period of time.
What is carrying capacity?
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The population in the country pictured
will most likely
experience this type of growth.
What is rapid or exponential
growth?
The estimated human population
is a approaching this number.
What is 7 billion?
As any population reaches
carrying capacity the amount
of this will decrease.
What is food, space, or
mates?
Developing countries usually have
a high one; the rate at which
babies are born.
What is birthrate?
Animals that travel in groups
such as schools of fish or herds
of bison are said to have this
dispersion pattern.
What is clumped?
The process of organisms
moving (migrating) into a
population.
What is immigration
Based on the graph the type of growth
that Germany is most likely to have
What zero or
negative growth?
The number of organisms in a
population per unit of area.
What is population density?
Make your wager
The process of
organisims migrating
away from a
population
What is emmigration?
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