Populations of Organisms

If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then...

• Populations will stay the same
• Populations will decrease
• Populations will increase

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A lack of resources such as food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space is often called __________.

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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

• True
• False

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Living or once living things in the environment

• biotic factors
• abiotic factors
• ecology
• population

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Members of the same species all living in the same area

• community
• ecosystem
• population
• biosphere

What does a limiting factor do?

• makes a population grow large
• stops a population from growing large
• helps organisms adapt to abiotic factors
• provides geographical boundaries for migration

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Which graph shows a decrease in the population?

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If more foxes move into the same area with rabbits. What will most likely happen to the rabbit population? (foxes eat rabbits)

• The rabbit population will not be affected

• The rabbit population will increase

• The rabbit population will decrease

• The rabbits will equal the foxes

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A living thing

• herbivore

• carnivore

• organism

• producer

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All of the Red Oak trees growing in a forest

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

• bacteria

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