Population Growth How is population growth naturally regulated? Why? The current world population is estimated to be over 7 billion. At present the number of births annually exceeds the number of deaths, which means that the population is increasing, and is estimated to reach 9 billion by 2040. In 1750 the world population was estimated at less than 800 million. How are growing populations such as ours controlled and supported, and can they continue to grow indefinitely? Model 1 – Population Growth

1. Refer to Model 1. a. What is the term used for populations moving into an area? b. What is the term used for populations leaving an area? c. Name two factors that cause an increase in the population size. d. Name two factors that cause a decrease in population size. 2. Using Model 1 and the letters B, D, E, and I, write mathematical expressions to show the types of population described below. Note: The use of > and < may be needed. a. A stable population (total number of organisms is not changing). b. A declining population (total number of organisms is decreasing). c. A growing population (total number of organisms is increasing). Model 2 – Survivorship Curves

3. Refer to Model 2. a. What does the x-axis on the graph in Model 2 represent? b. Which type of organism shows a steady decline in its population at all life stages? c. Which type of organism loses most of the individuals in its population at an early life stage? d. What survivor type are humans?

4. At what life stage is each survivor type when the number of survivors is 100? a. Type I — b. Type II — c. Type III — 5. Which of the three types have the highest number of individuals that reach reproductive age? Read This! Through the process of evolution, all species have developed strategies to compensate for their survivorship type. Insects lay eggs by the hundreds. Mammals keep their young close by and protected until they reach adulthood. Factors such as these allow populations of species to survive and thrive despite their survivorship curve. 6. How do you think populations with Type II or III survivorship compensate for high pre-reproductive mortality (death)?

7. Consider the evolutionary strategies that each survivorship type has developed for producing and rearing their young. Propose an explanation for why type I survivors have the highest relative number of individuals/1000 births that survive until they reach post-reproductive age?

8. Under what circumstances might human populations not show Type I survivorship?

Model 3 – Growth Curves

9. Refer to Model 3. a. During what phase of the growth curves in each diagram is the population just beginning to colonize an area? b. Which type of population growth appears to continue unchecked? 10. The growth curves in Model 3 are often referred to using the letters of the alphabet they resemble. The logistic growth curve is sometimes referred to as an S-curve. What letter would you use to describe the exponential growth curve? 11. What causes the population to slow down during logistic growth?

12. The maximum population an environment can sustain is affected by environmental factors that cause the population to level out or become stable. What term is used to describe this level of logistic growth?

13. Propose some reasons why population growth is so rapid immediately after the lag phase in both diagrams of Model 3?

14. Exponential growth (diagram A) refers to the phenomena of populations that double in size every generation. If you start with a single bacterium capable of dividing every 20 minutes, how many bacteria would you have after just four hours?

15. In most natural populations rapid exponential growth is unsustainable. As populations increase, environmental resistance causes the growth rate to slow down, until carrying capacity is reached. With your group, brainstorm several factors that could be considered as environmental resistance (not just natural environmental resistance).

16. Diagram B shows that the population size fluctuates around the carrying capacity. Considering what you know about interactions in the environment, discuss with your group some of the factors that could cause these fluctuations. In your answer you should relate these factors to the information from Model 1. Read This! Populations are often clumped together in area because of access to resources, such as water, food and shelter. The population density of any given area is shown by the equation: number of individuals/ unit area. Areas with high numbers of individuals are considered dense. For example, New York City has 8.3 million people distributed over a land area of only 305 miles2, making it the most dense city in the nation. Model 4- Factors Affecting Density

17. Refer to Model 4. a. Which factors are dependent on the population density? b. Describe how the food supply would be affected by the population density. c. Describe how the levels or spread of disease would be affected by population density.

18. What do all the density-independent factors have in common? 19. In your own words, define density dependent and density independent by completing the sentences below. a. Density-dependent factors are b. Density-independent factors are 20. Density-independent factors and density-dependent factors may be interrelated. For example, a lack of rainfall that causes a drought will impact the food supply in a habitat. Propose another pairing of a density-independent factor and densitydependent factor that might occur.

Extension Questions Read This! Invasive species are species that are introduced into an environment but are not naturally found in that environment. One example of an invasive species is the American gray squirrel, introduced into Britain at the end of the 18th century. Until 1876 the only native squirrel in Britain was the European red squirrel, which was found in deciduous and coniferous forests. By 1940 the gray squirrel had displaced the red squirrel across most of the British Isles, and by 1984 the red squirrel was only found in isolated coniferous woodland areas. After its initial introduction, the gray squirrel population increased rapidly; however, in recent years population sizes within specific environments have become stable. 21. Explain why the newly-introduced gray squirrel initially showed rapid population growth and why the native red squirrel showed a population decline. Use ecological terms from the previous models in your answer.

22. Why has the population size of the gray squirrel become stable in recent years? Model 5- Human Population Growth

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23. Look at human population in model 4. a. What kind of growth is shown (refer back to model 3)? b. Why is there a dramatic dip in the population around 1500 CE? c. Speculate what lead to the rapid human population growth after the 1900’s. Read This! The human population did not dramatically increase until the 1900’s because before the industrial revolution, humans had to survive on current sunlight, energy that came down from the sun everyday to grow crops, feed herbivores, etc. In the 1900’s humans were able to release ancient sunlight (fossil fuels) to get additional energy, allowing the human population to sustain higher population numbers. 24. So far the human population has remained unchecked. Do you think this type of growth will be able to sustain (continue)? Justify your answer.

25. The human population is expected to reach carrying capacity at 9-10 billion people, with the projection of reaching 9.6 billion by 2050. a. What are some factors that will limit the human population? Be specific.

b. Predict what will happen to the human population when it reaches carrying capacity. What will the world look like then?

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