Journal Entry #8
Population Vocabulary
Read pages 118-127 in your textbooks and answer the following questions in complete
sentences in your journal:
1) How is population density calculated?
2) a) What are three factors that can affect population size?
b) What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
3) a) What is the difference between exponential and logistic growth?
b) How does the population of an organism relate to its carrying capacity?
c) Why do your think that exponential growth of a population is often
followed by a “crash” of this population.
4) a) What is a limiting factor?
b) Why are competition, predation, and parasitism considered density-dependent limiting factors? Include
a definition of “density-dependent” in your answer.
c) Why are natural disasters, weather, and human disturbances considered
density-independent limiting factors? Include a definition of “density-independent” in your answer.
Journal Entry #8
Population Vocabulary
Read pages 118-127 in your textbooks and answer the following questions in complete
sentences in your journal:
1) How is population density calculated?
2) a) What are three factors that can affect population size?
b) What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
3) a) What is the difference between exponential and logistic growth?
b) How does the population of an organism relate to its carrying capacity?
c) Why do your think that exponential growth of a population is often
followed by a “crash” of this population/
4) a) What is a limiting factor?
b) Why are competition, predation, and parasitism considered density-dependent limiting factors? Include
a definition of “density-dependent” in your answer.
c) Why are natural disasters, weather, and human disturbances considered
density-independent limiting factors? Include a definition of “density-independent” in your answer.