Evironmental resistance

Question 1

environmental resistance

Answer 1

the factors that stop a population from reproducing at a maximum rate

Question 2

carrying capacity

Answer 2

the population density that the environment can support

Question 3

limiting factors are

Answer 3

density Dependant factors such as physical factors and catastrophic factors as well as density dependant factors like competition, predators and disease.

Question 4

stable population

Answer 4

one that fluctuates around the carrying capacity

Question 5

How is population size estimated

Answer 5

Direct methods ,indirect methods and mark recapturing

Question 6

Direct methods consist of…

Answer 6

aerial photographs and helicopters

Question 7

indirect methods

Answer 7

is the quadrat method

Question 8

Types of competition

Answer 8

Intraspecific and interspecific

Question 9

Ecological niche

Answer 9

all the conditions necessary for an organism to survive and reproduce

Question 10

competitive exclusion

Answer 10

occurs when one of the competing species are more successful

Question 11

competitive co-existence

Answer 11

when competing species do resource partitioning

Question 12

How can resources be partitioned

Answer 12

Diffrent time zones ,parts of a habitat or flower

Question 13

stratification

Answer 13

partition of plants by deviding them into different layers