Acute diseases are sudden, severe, and short term only. They quickly appear and worsen without warning and they disappear. Examples of this are flu or colds.
Chronic diseases, on the other hand, are long-developing diseases. The symptoms have been present for long time and it worsens as time progresses. Examples of this are Osteoporosis and heart disease.
No they are two different environments with different factors
the lithosphere is inbetween
I don’t see any labels, but remember that humans are a great example of a k-selected species. High rates of parental care leads to high survivorship of offspring, and thus negates the need to have large amounts of offspring.
R-selected species are quite the opposite. They produce large amounts of offspring at many intervals in an attempt to maximize survivorship, as they don’t have strong parental involvement with their young. Think of insects.
