Pod+1-Population

= Population = __ BIODIVERSITY __ Within today's envoronment biodiversity is needed so that ecosystems can thrive. Biodiversity accounts for the many different ecosystems and the animals that live in them around the world. Sustaining biodiversity will ensure that the Earth's populations will remain at stable healthy levels. [|Learn more here.] [|Human Population] **__What is population? __**A population is a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specfic geographical area and interbreed.

Growth Rate : births-deaths The change of population overtime

Reproductive Potential: the maximum number of offsprings that a given organism can produce
 * Exponential growth:
 * is logarithmic growth or growth on which numbers increase by a certain factor in each successive time period.



**__Carrying Capacity:__** The largest population that an environment can support at any given time.