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12 Cards in this Set
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Population |
the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area |
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Population Density |
the number of people living per unit of an area |
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Population Model |
type of mathematical model that is applied to the study of population dynamics |
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Carrying Capacity |
the number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container |
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Logistic Model |
is used to predict the odds of being a case based on the values of the independent variables |
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r-strategist |
The two evolutionary "strategies" are termed r-selection, for those species that produce many "cheap" offspring and live in unstable environments |
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Population size |
is the number of individual organisms in a population |
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Dispersion |
the action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area |
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Exponential Growth Curve |
is growth that increases at a consistent rate |
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Density Dependent Factor |
Any factor limiting the size of a population whose effect is dependent on the number of individuals in the population |
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Density Independent Factor |
Any factor limiting the size of a population whose effect is not dependent on the number of individuals in the population |
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k-strategist |
K-selection for those species that produce few "expensive" offspring and live in stable environments |
