Question: Intrinsic Growth Rate

Answer: the maximum potential for growth of a population under ideal conditions with unlimited resources

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Question: J-shaped curve

Answer: the curve of the exponential growth model when graphed

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Question: logistic growth

Answer: Growth pattern in which a population’s growth rate slows or stops following a period of exponential growth

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Question: S-Shaped Curve

Answer: the shape of the logistic growth model when graphed

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Question: Overshoot

Answer: when a population becomes larger than the environment’s carrying capacity

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Question: Die-off

Answer: a rapid decline in a population due to death

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Question: Exponential Growth

Answer: growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.

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Question: Famine

Answer: an extreme shortage of food

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Question: Limiting Resource

Answer: a resource that a population cannot live without and that occurs in quantities lower than the population would require to increase in size

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Question: density dependent factors

Answer: Factors, such as starvation, that increase directly as the population density increases

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Question: Density independent Factors

Answer: Limiting factors whose influence is not affected by population density

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Question: Mortality

Answer: death

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Question: Fecundity

Answer: fertility

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Question: Carrying Capacity

Answer: Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support

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