Limiting Factors

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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A group of elephants gets stuck in mud at the edge of the river from a recent mud slide. A lion waits for an elephant to get tired before it attacks. What is the limiting factor to the elephant population?

• Predator-Prey Relationships

• Natural Disaster

• Herbivory Effect

• Competition

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If the amount of food or resources available increases, the carrying capacity for an animal:

• Stays the same
• Increases
• Decreases
• Fluctuates

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Excessive amounts of rain caused a flood in the southwest United States that resulted in substantial amounts of deaths in the rabbit population? This situation is an example of a density _____________ limiting factor.

• density-independent
• density-dependent
• density- too high
• density- too low

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Natural disasters can be considered limiting factors.

• true: density independent limiting factors

• false; natural disasters are not limiting factors

• true: density dependent limiting factors

• false: because Mrs. Schaffer said

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Limiting factors which impact the size of a population no matter how large that population is.

• Density Independent Limiting Factors
• Density Dependent Limiting Factors
• Carrying Capacity
• Exponential Growth

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An environmental factor such as storms and extreme heat or cold that decrease a population are considered to be. 

• density- dependent factor
• population density
• dispersion
• density- independent factor

A lion and a cheetah attempt to occupy the same niche. The more aggressive lion survives; the cheetah does not.

• Density-Dependent: Competition

• Density-Independent: Competition

• Density-Dependent: Predator-Prey

• Density-Independent: Predator-Prey

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Coyotes cross the winter pack ice and enter Newfoundland. The moose population starts to decline.

• Density-Dependent: Competition

• Density-Independent: Competition

• Density-Dependent: Predator-Prey

• Density-Independent: Predator-Prey

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

• True
• False

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