Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors

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 the amount of food or resources available increases, the carrying capacity for an animal:

• Stays the same
• Increases
• Decreases
• Fluctuates

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In a forest ecosystem, which of the following is the best example of a limiting factor for a rabbit population?

• Squirrel Population
• Sunlight
• Grass available

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The largest number of individuals in a species that an environment can support long term

• carrying capacity
• emigration
• immigration
• population density

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Which of the following would INCREASE the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• increase in predators
• disease
• increase in available food
• drought

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Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting to large.

• True
• False

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A __________ includes all living and non-living things in an environment. 

• population
• niche
• abitotic
• ecosystem

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Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all  _____  parts of the environment

• alive
• biotic 
• abiotic
• living

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Which of the following is not an abiotic factor?

• sun
• temperature
• soil
• grass

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A nonliving element in an ecosystem is an 

• animal
• abiotic factor
• biotic factor
• organism

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