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chapter 4 vocab words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ecology | the study of how organisms interact with one another and their enviroment |
| Species | a group os individuals that interbreed and produce fertile offspring |
| Population | the members of species that live in the same area |
| Community | all the population of a spacific area |
| Ecosystem | all living things and their physical enviroment |
| Biosphere | all the earth and its living organisms, and enviroments |
| Biotic Factor | any living or used to be living thing |
| Abiotic Factor | Any thing that has never been living |
| Habitat | the specific environment that an organism lives |
| Resource | anything an organism needs |
| Survivorship Curve | a graph showing the likelihood of survival within a group populsation by age |
| Imigration | the movement of individuals ro a given area |
| Emigration | the movement of individuals away from a given area |
| Migration | the seasonal movement of organisms into and out of a given area |
| Exponential Growth | the pattern of population growth in which population increases by a fixed percentage each year |
| Limiting Factor | a characteristic of an environment that restricts population growth |
| Carrying Capacity | the largest population and enviroment can support |
| Logistic Growth | the pattern of population growth in which exponential Growth is slowed and eventually stopped by limiting factor |
| Density dependent factor | a limiting factor whose influence changes with population density |
| density independent factor | a limiting factor whose influence is not affected by population density |
| Biotic potential | the growth rate of a population under ideal conditions |