Limiting Factors

All members of one species in a certain area.

• Population

• Limiting Factors

• Immigration

• Birth Rate

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

• Carrying Capacity
• Limiting Factor
• Reproductive Potential

What are some abiotic factors that could be limiting factors in the Iowa River ecosystem?

• Temperature, fertilizer runoff from fields, drought or flood
• Invasive species, floods
• Temperature, droughts, floods, over fishing

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