limiting factors

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

• True
• False

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

• prey
• parasite
• predator
• all of these

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

• Density Independent limiting factors start to occur resulting in the population going farther above carrying capacity.
• Density Dependent limiting factors start to occur resulting in the population going back below carrying capacity.
• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

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All members of one species in a certain area.

• Population
• Limiting Factors
• Immigration
• Birth Rate

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The NUMBER of individuals in a certain population.

• Population
• Limiting Factors
• Natural Selection
• Population Density

The largest number of organisms that the environment can support. 

• Carrying Capacity
• Limiting Factor

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

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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

• prey
• parasite
• predator
• all of these

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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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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