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Environmental Science Chapter 8 Understanding Populations 8-1: How Populations Change Size Describe the three main properties of a population. Describe exponential population growth. Describe how the reproductive behavior of individuals can affect the growth rate of their population. Explain how population sizes in nature are regulated. What is a population? All the members of the same species living in the same place at the same time. “reproductive group” or “gene pool” Population refers to the group in general and to the size of the group Daisies in Ohio, not in Maryland Bass in a lake in