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15 Cards in this Set
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Limiting Factor |
Factors that can limit the growth of a population |
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Biotic Potential |
The potential growth of a population if it could grow in perfect conditions with no limiting factor |
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Carrying Capacity |
The largest number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support over time |
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Habitat |
The physical place where a population or organism lives |
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Niche |
The unique ways an organism survives, obtains food and shelter, and avoids danger |
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Symbolic Relationship |
One in which two different species lives together and interact closely over a long period of time |
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Population Density |
The number of organisms in the population related to the space available |
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Overpopulation |
When a population's size grows beyond the ability of the area to support it |
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Mutualism |
A symbolic relationship in which two species in a community benefits from a relationship |
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Parasitism |
A symbolic relationship in which one species(the parasite) while another (the host) is harmed |
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Commensalism |
A symbolic relationship where one species benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed |
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Population |
Made up of all the members of one species that live in an area |
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Community |
All the populations living in an ecosystem at the same time |
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Random Sampling |
You divide an area into units and count how many plants are in a unit and then you add them all up and divide by how many units have plants and also mulitply the number of plants there are and how many units there are to get the two answers |
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Mark and Release |
You go into an area and you catch a species mark them and release them and you do it over time to get an estimation on how many of a species are left in an area |