Introduction to Environmental Science, 2018 edition

Parts of this chapter have been modified from:

OpenStax College , Biology. OpenStax CNX. May 13, 2015 http://cnx.org/contents/185cbf87-c72e-48f5-b51e-f14f21b5eabd@9.85.

2.1  What is Population Ecology?
2.2  Population Growth Models
        2.2.1 Exponential Growth
        2.2.2 Logistic Growth
2.3  Factors that Limit Population Growth
2.4  Life Tables and Survivorship
2.5 The Human Population
2.6 Demography
        2.6.1 Age Structure Diagrams
        2.6.2 The Demographic Transition Model
        2.6.3 Life Expectancy
        2.6.4 Fertility

By the end of this chapter students will be able to:

1. Use the exponential and logistic equations to predict population growth rate.
2. Compare the environmental conditions represented that apply to the exponential growth model vs. the logistic growth model.
3. Define carrying capacity and be able to identify it on a graph.
4. Identify density-dependent and density-independent factors that limit population growth.
5. Interpret survivorship curves and give examples of organisms that fit each type of curve.
6. Explain historical, current, and future human population growth trends and their consequences.
7. Interpret age-structure diagrams.
8. Explain the demographic transition and what happens to birth rates, death rates, population growth rate, and population size as a country moves through the stages of the demographic transition model.
9. Name examples of countries in the different stages of the demographic transition models and match age-structure diagrams with the stages of the demographic transition model.
10. Define life expectancy and total fertility rate and explain how each one changes as a country moves through the demographic transition model.