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Carrying Capacity | Largest amount of something that can live in one area. |
Density-dependent Factor | Things that affect groups based on their size. |
Density-independent factor | Things that affect all groups equally. |
Dispersion | How organisms spread out in an environment. |
Emigration | Oganisms that leave or exit a group. |
Immigration | Organisms that are coming into a group. |
Population density | How many organisms live in one area. |
Population Growth | Change in the number of organisms that live in an area. |
Age Structure | A group of organisms broken into old, middle, and young- based on reproduction. |
Demographic transition | When a group changes which age range has the most people. |
Demography | Study of human population. |
Zero population growth | When births and deaths are equal- population stays the same. |