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 when they get stuck in mud at the edge of the river from a recent mud slide?

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Natural Disaster

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Factors that do not respond to the density of a population in an ecosystem: Density Dependent Limiting Factors, Density Independent Limiting Factors, Herbivory Effect, Competition

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Density Independent Limiting Factors

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Which of these limiting factors has an influence on the growth of a population based on its density? Natural Disasters, Seasonal Changes, Weather, Overcrowding

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Overcrowding

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What kind of limiting factor best represents what happened to the local toads when a bull toad from the Amazon was introduced and started competing with them for food, shelter, and space?

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Human Impact

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What is a producer?

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Organism that makes its own food

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What happens when an environment reaches its carrying capacity?

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Populations will decrease

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During which day did this population reach carrying capacity?

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Day 23

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What happens to the rabbit population on year 4? Options: It begins to decrease, It stays the same, It increases, It reaches carrying capacity

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It increases

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The graph below shows the number of birds in a population.
Which statement best explains the section X of the graph? Options: Interbreeding between members of this population increased the mutation rate, An increase in the bird population caused an increase in the producer population, The population reached a state of dynamic equilibrium due to limiting factors, Another species came to the area and provided food for the birds.

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The population reached a state of dynamic equilibrium due to limiting factors.