Abiotic: non-living
Biotic: living
Carrying Capacity: the maximum population an ecosystem can support of a given species.
Competition: for food and resources Competition: for food and resources. Types: interference (by direct attack), exploitation (forced to share a resource), scramble (everyone gets something), contest (one competitor gets it all), and restrictive (preventing someone else from getting it).
Exponential Growth: Increase in number or size, at a constantly growing rate.
Limiting Factors : Any factor (biotic or abiotic) that inhibits the growth of a species population.
Logistic population growth: occurs when the growth rate decreases as the population reaches carrying capacity. Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals in a population that the environment can support.
Overpopulation: occurs when a population of a species exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche.
Population: Organisms inhabiting a territory.
Scale: Levels of organization between organisms in the biosphere (Ex Scale: Levels of organization between organisms in the biosphere (Ex. BECPO- What do these initials represent?)