Limiting Factors & Carrying Capacity

_{^{The  number of individuals a habitat can sustain with the resources it has available}}

• Carrying capacity
• Limiting factors
• Resources
• Population

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_{A supply of materials in a habitat}

• Resources
• Biomes
• Organisms
• Groceries

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Which of the following is an EXAMPLE of a limiting factor?

• Water
• the color of the sky
• Migration
• Thick fur

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Which of the following is an example of competition?

• Two vultures fight over a dead rabbit
• A bear eats a fish
• Birds migrate south
• Pet dog keeps a man company

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Which is an example of mutualism?

• Lion hunts and eats a zebra
• A bird eats harmful parasites off of an ox's skin
• Two wolves fight over territory
• A herd of horses eat grass

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^{_{What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?}}

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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_{What is the carrying capacity of the graph?}

• around 500
• more than 500
• less than 500
• around 600

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_{When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?}

• Continues to grow
• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity
• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

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If a disease destroying barley plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the barley eating bird population in the the field ?

• The bird population would stay the same
• The bird population would infinitely increase
• The bird population would decrease

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_{If the amount of food or resources available increases, the carrying capacity for an animal:}

• Stays the same
• Increases
• Decreases
• Fluctuates

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