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

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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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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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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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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Releasing a pet rabbit into the wild will cause no harm on the environment. True or false?

• True
• False

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Coral reefs are....

• In the ocean
• In Lakes
• In Rivers
• In Ponds

Two arctic fox are fighting with a polar bear for a sea lion carcass. One fox distracts the bear while the other eats. What type of limiting factor is the polar bear?

• Predator-Prey Relationships

• Competition

• Herbivory Effect

• Weather

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