Download 14.4 Population and Growth Patterns TEKS 11B, 12A, 12D

14.4
Population and Growth Patterns
TEKS 11B, 12A, 12D
The student is expected to:
11B investigate and analyze how
organisms, populations, and communities
respond to external factors;
12A interpret relationships, including
predation, parasitism, commensalism,
mutualism, and competition among
organisms;
12D recognize that long-term survival of
species is dependent on changing resource
bases that are limited
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Population and Growth Patterns
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KEY CONCEPT
Populations grow in predictable patterns.
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Population and Growth Patterns
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Changes in a population’s size are determined by
immigration, births, emigration, and deaths.
• The size of a population
is always changing.
• Four factors affect the
size of a population.
– immigration
– births
– emigration
– deaths
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Population and Growth Patterns
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Population growth is based on available resources.
• Exponential growth is a rapid population increase due to an
abundance of resources.
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• Logistic growth is due to a population facing limited
resources.
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Population and Growth Patterns
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• Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals in
a population that the environment can support.
• A population crash is a dramatic decline in the size of a
population over a short period of time.
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Population and Growth Patterns
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Ecological factors limit population growth.
• A limiting factor is something that keeps the size of a
population down.
• Density-dependent limiting factors are affected by the
number of individuals in a given area.
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• Density-dependent limiting factors are affected by the
number of individuals in a given area.
– predation
– competition
– parasitism
and disease
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• Density-independent limiting factors limit a population’s
growth regardless of the density.
– unusual weather
– natural disasters
– human activities