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9TH CHAP 8 8.1 AENVIRONMENT OUTLINE

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POPULATION   A _______________ is a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area and interbreed.  
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BREED   A population is a reproductive group because organisms usually________with members of their own population.  
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SIZE   The word population refers to the group in general and also to the ______ of the population, or the number of individuals it contains.  
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DENSITY   _________________ is the number of individuals of the same species in that live in a given unit of area.  
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DISPERSION   ___________is the pattern of distribution of organisms in a population. A population’s dispersion may be even, clumped, or random.  
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PREDICT   Size, density, dispersion, and other properties can be used to describe populations and to __________changes within them.  
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BIRTH DEATH   A population gains individuals with each new offspring or _____ and loses them with each ______.  
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CHANGE   The resulting population _______ over time can be represented by the equation below.  
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GROWTH RATE   ______ _______ is an expression of the increase in the size of an organism or population over a given period of time. It is the birth rate minus the death rate.  
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EQUAL   For the growth rate to be zero, the average number of births must ______ the average number of deaths.  
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TWO   A population would remain the same size if each pair of adults produced exactly ____ offspring, and each of those offspring survived to reproduce.  
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NEGATIVE   If the adults in a population are not replaced by new births, the growth rate will be ______ and the population will shrink  
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FACTORS   Populations usually stay about the same size from year to year because various _______ kill many individuals before they can reproduce.  
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CARRYING CAPACITY   ___________ _________ is the largest population that an environment can support at any given time.  
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BEYOND   A population may increase_____________ this number but it cannot stay at this increased size.  
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CRASH   Because ecosystems change, carrying capacity is difficult to predict or calculate exactly. However it may be estimated by looking at average population sizes or by observing a population___________ after a certain size has been exceeded.  
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SAME RATE   A species reaches its carrying capacity when it consumes a particular natural resource at the ______ ________ at which the ecosystem produces the resource.  
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LIMITING RESOURCE   That natural resource is then called a __________ ______________.  
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SUPPLY   The ______________ of the most severely limited resources determines the carrying capacity of an environment for a particular species at a particular time.Competition Within a Population  
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COMPETE   The members of a population use the same resources in the same ways, so they will eventually _______ with one another as the population approaches its carrying capacity.  
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TERRITORY   instead of competing for a limiting resource, members of a species may compete indirectly for social dominance or for a ____________.  
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COMPETITION   _______________within a population is part of the pressure of natural selection.  
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TERRITORY   A_______________is an area defended by one or more individuals against other individuals.  
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VALUE   The territory is of________not only for the space but for the shelter, food, or breeding sites it contains.  
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ENERGY   Many organisms expend a large amount of time and ______ competing with members of the same species for mates, food, or homes for their families.  
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DENSELY   Population size can be limited in ways that may or may not depend on the ______________________of the population.  
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DEATH   Causes of _________in a population may be density dependent or density independent.  
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INDEPENDENT   When a cause of death in a population is density ____________, deaths occur more quickly in a crowded population than in a sparse population.  
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DENSILY   This type of regulation happens when individuals of a population are __________ packed together.  
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HIGHER   Limited resources, predation and disease result in ________________ rates of death in dense populations than in sparse populations.  
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INDEPENDENT   When a cause of death is density __________, a certain proportion of a population may die regardless of the population’s density.  
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ALL   This type of regulation affects _____populations in a general or uniform way.  
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WEATHER   Severe ________and natural disasters are often density independent causes of death  
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EVOLVES   In the long run, the factors also determine how the population __________.  
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BIOTIC   A species’ _____________potential is the fastest rate at which its populations can grow. This rate is limited by reproductive potential.  
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REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL   A species’ biotic potential is the fastest rate at which its populations can grow. This rate is limited by ______________- _____________.  
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HIGHER   Some species have much __________ reproductive potentials than others.  
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MORE   Reproductive potential increases when individuals produce ______ offspring at a time, reproduce often, and reproduce earlier in life.  
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EARLIER   Reproducing _____in life has the greatest effect on reproductive potential.  
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GENERATION   Reproducing early shortens the _________ time, or the average time it takes a member of the population to reach the age when it reproduces.  
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GROW QUICKLY   Small organisms, such as bacteria and insects, have short generation times and can reproduce when they are only a few hours or a few days old. As a result, their populations can ____________ _________.  
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EXPONENTIAL GROWTH   __________ _________ is logarithmic growth or growth in which numbers increase by a certain factor in each successive time period.  
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ONLY   Exponential growth occurs in nature _______ when populations have plenty of food and space, and have no competition or predators.  
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LARGE   In exponential growth, a __________number of individuals is added to the population in each succeeding time period.  
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CANNOT   Because natural conditions are neither ideal nor constant, populations ________ grow forever.  
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USED UP   Eventually, resources are ________ __ or the environment changes, and deaths increase or births decrease.  
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