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Sci 4.1 key concepts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is always happening within a population? | Organisms are always being born and dying. |
| Systems can be stable as things are being added and removed, but if they are not equal, what will happen? | The system will change. |
| What will happen to a system if the number of births and deaths in a given time are equal? | The population size will be stable. |
| If there are more births than deaths in a given time, will the size of the population increase or decrease? | The population size will increase. |
| If there are more deaths than births in a given time, will the size of the population increase or decrease? | The population size will decrease. |
| In order to reproduce, what do organisms need to do? | They need to release energy from energy storage molecules. |
| How do organisms in consumer populations get energy storage molecules? | They get energy from eating organisms in resource populations. |
| Can two populations compete for the same resource population? | Yes |
| If two populations compete for the same resource population and a change occurs in one of the populations, what can be affected? | The size of the other populations can be affected. |
| What can be affected by any population that is connected to it in a food web? | The size of the population can be affected. |