Chapter 5 Vocabulary

  1. adaptation
  2. adaptive trait
  3. age distribution
  4. age structure
  5. artificial selection
  6. biodiversity
  7. biological diversity
  8. biosphere
  9. birth rate
  10. carrying capacity
  11. communities
  12. community ecology
  13. Darwin, Charles
  14. death rate
  15. density dependent factor
  16. density independent factor
  17. ecosystem ecology
  18. ecosystems
  19. ecotourism
  20. emigration
  21. endemic
  22. evolution
  23. exponential growth
  24. extinction
  25. generalists
  26. growth rate
  27. habitat
  28. habitat use
  29. immigration
  30. K-selected
  31. limiting factors
  32. logistic growth curve
  33. mass extinction events
  34. mutation
  35. natural selection
  36. niche
  37. population
  38. population density
  39. population dispersion
  40. population distribution
  41. population ecology
  42. population size
  43. r-selected
  44. selective breeding
  45. sex ratio
  46. specialists
  47. speciation
  48. species
  49. survivorship curves
  50. sympatric speciation
  51. Wallace, Alfred Russell