Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors

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

• True
• False

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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

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When there is a lack of resources such as food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space this is often called __________.

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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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

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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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What would happen if the population of hawks suddenly increased? How would it affect the other organisms in the ecosystem?

• The snakes would decrease due to more hawks eating them
• All of the population of organisms would increase
• The biotic factors in the ecosystem would increase
• The hawks predators would decrease

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The largest number of organisms in a population that the environment can support. 

• Carrying Capacity
• Limiting Factor
• Reproductive Potential

What happens when an environment reaches its carrying capacity?

• Populations will decrease
• Resources such as food, water, and space will be unlimited
• Populations will increase
• Nothing, everything will stay the same.

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

• alive
• biotic 
• abiotic
• living

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What will happen if all of the frogs in a population die?

• The frogs' predators will decrease and the frogs' prey will increase
• The frogs' predators will increase and the frogs' prey will decrease
• The frogs' predators will increase and they frogs' prey in increase.
• We better all pray because there isn't anymore frogs.

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