Populations & Life History Strategies Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• life history : physiological, behavioral features that affect reproduction, survival, population structure, growth, habitat, competition.
• plasticity : the same genotype producing different phenotype depending on environmental conditions.
• survivorship curve : follows the survival patterns of a cohort from birth to death.
• density : the number of individuals per unit area.
• population : a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same place at the same time.
• vital statistics : death rate, birth rate, age class structure, sex ratio.
• uniform : individuals are evenly spaced.
• demography : the study of vital statistics and how they change in a population over time.
• population ecology : the study of populations and their interactions with environment, including density, distribution, age structure, and population size.
• allocation : energy invested in one trait/characteristic can’t be used for another.
• clumped : individuals aggregate into patches.
• demographics : factors that influence density and dispersion patterns over time.
• dispersion : the pattern of spacing of individuals within boundaries of the population.
• random : individuals are spaced unpredictably.