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Title: AP Biology Chapter 17-18 Vocabulary
Description: These notes cover Population Ecology, with terms such as: Population Density, Natality, Mortality, and Lag Phase.
Description: These notes cover Population Ecology, with terms such as: Population Density, Natality, Mortality, and Lag Phase.
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Chapter 1718 Vocabulary
Population Ecology
● Population:
Group of the same species in the same area at a given time
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● Population Pressure
: Idea that increased competition causes organisms to emigrate
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● Natality:
Birth Rate per 1,000
● Mortality
: Death rate per 1,000
● Lag Phase:
When population remains small and constant due to reproduction time
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● Deceleration Phase:
When population growth starts to slow down
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● Limiting Factors
: Factors that keep the population from growing indefinitely
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● Extrinsic Limiting Factors
: Things
outside
the population that limit growth
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● DensityDependent Limiting Factors
: Factors that become more efficient as the
population grows
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● Carrying Capacity
: Maximum sustainable population for an area
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● Anthropomorphism
: Giving human thoughts and emotions to animals
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● Learned Behavior
: Actions that can be modified using past experiences
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● Response
: Reaction to a stimulus
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● Habituation:
Learned behavior where an animal ignores a stimulus after repeated
exposure to it
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● Classical Conditioning
: Association when a natural response to a natural stimulus
occurs with a new unrelated stimulus
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● Observational Learning
: Association when an animal either imitates or avoids an action
due to watching another animal perform it and seeing the consequences
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● Insight
: Learning when a past experience is recognized to solve a new problem
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● Pheromones
: Chemicals released by an animal to trigger a change in others of the same
species
Title: AP Biology Chapter 17-18 Vocabulary
Description: These notes cover Population Ecology, with terms such as: Population Density, Natality, Mortality, and Lag Phase.
Description: These notes cover Population Ecology, with terms such as: Population Density, Natality, Mortality, and Lag Phase.