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Total cards: 10•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

Define Life Tables

Back (Answer)

age-specific mortality schedule of a population.

#2
Front (Question)

Who were Life Tables developed by?

Back (Answer)

human demographers working for insurance companies

#3
Front (Question)

What are the two types of life tables

Back (Answer)

1) Cohort life table 2) Static life tables

#4
Front (Question)

Define Cohort life tables

Back (Answer)

based on following a cohort throughout life. (follow a group from life to death)

#5
Front (Question)

what column is used to construct a “survivorship curve”

Back (Answer)

n sub x

#6
Front (Question)

Define Type 1

Back (Answer)

low mortality for most of life ex. people

#7
Front (Question)

Define Type 2

Back (Answer)

constant rate of mortality ex. small mammals

#8
Front (Question)

Define Type 3

Back (Answer)

high mortality, early in life ex. invertebrates

#9
Front (Question)

Define static life tables

Back (Answer)

calculated from cross section of a population at specific time

#10
Front (Question)

What are the three types of data Ecologists use for non-human life tables

Back (Answer)

1) survivorship directly observed 2) age at death observed 3) age structure directly observed