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how individuals in a population are spread out |
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density independent factors |
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weather, floods, fire, reduce population by same proportion regardless of size |
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density dependent factors |
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resource limitations, water, food, disease, shelter, shortages |
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birth rate, death rate, expectancy |
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few offspring but live to old age, people |
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constant rate of dying off, rodents |
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many kids only a few live |
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plenty offspring hope some survive |
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few offspring, guaranteed adulthood |
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study of looking at relationships between humans and the earth |
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protects life from ultraviolet light |
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because of fossil fuel use, will kill all ocean life or planet heats rapidly |
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limits plants ability to take up Co2 |
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biodiversity extermination |
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small chunks of habitat because we are killing communities for our own benefit |
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adding genes to organisms accidentally |
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