5.2 Populations: Limiting Factors

Which is NOT an example of a limiting factor.

• Climate
• Available Food & Water
• Available Space & Shelter
• Species color

A snake is eaten by a hawk. The hawk is the _______.

• prey
• parasite
• predator
• all of these

Food, water, shelter, and space are resources that are __________.

• limiting factors

• independent resources

• carrying capacities

• found in rocks

If the population of a certain predator increases, there is often _______ its prey

• a decrease the population of
• an increase of the population of 
• great news for its prey of
• no  impact found on

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

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

Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

• a limiting measure
• a limiting factor
• factorization
• materialization of precipitation

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

What happened to the predator population after the prey population decreased?

• the predator population eventually increased

• the predator population eventually decreased

What happened to the prey population as the predator population increased?

• it started to decrease

• it started to increase

Environmental factors that keep a population from increasing. 

• Carrying Capacity
• Limiting Factors