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Students are focused on the big question: What makes a population grow and how could that growth stop? They use these concepts to help answer the big question: carry capacity, density dependent v. density, independent factors, predation and competition. Students look at patterns of exponential growth curve v. logistic growth curve.

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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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Duration
2 days

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