Limiting Factors

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Two arctic fox are fighting with a polar bear for a sea lion carcass. One fox distracts the bear while the other eats. What type of limiting factor is the polar bear?

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Competition

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What is the limiting factor to the elephant population?

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Natural Disaster

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What is the limiting factor to the snakes in a scenario where a duck population is breeding at exponential rates and the snakes that hunted them have been collected by fur collectors?

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Humans

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A duck population normally begins migrating south right after the last rain of the late summer season. Suddenly, they’re migrating much earlier. The climate has been changing far too often which is altering the effects of their magnetite.

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Weather

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What is the limiting factor to the producer when a wolf population leaves the forest, causing bushes, trees, and moisture to leave as well, and herbivores overgraze the land?

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Herbivory Effect

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What is the limiting factor to the herbivore when a wolf population competes with a new bear population for the same herbivores, and bushes, trees, and rivers improve in numbers?

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Predator-Prey Relationships

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What is the limiting factor to all the consumers in the food chain described: Small krill sweep the river bottom rocks for debris and muck. Next, the krill is suddenly swooped up by a small fish. The small fish then gets eaten by a salmon. A week after the bear eats the salmon, it begins to have symptoms. Over time the bear weakens from a botfly infection?

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Parasites

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What is the limiting factor to the snake after it is scratched and bitten by a honey-badger and dies after twenty-four hours?

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Disease

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What is the limiting factor to the wolves when the population grows out of control with enough food, but few caves exist?

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Overcrowding

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The wolf goes extinct, and the deer population has no predator to worry about. They graze the land. Because there is no more food. Some of the deer begin to bite at each other, while others die of starvation. What is the limiting factor to the deer population?

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Overcrowding