Population/Limiting Factors

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

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

If the population increases, there is often _______

• a decrease of competition

• an increase of competition

• great news for its prey

• no impact found

If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then...

• Populations will stay the same
• Populations will decrease
• Populations will increase

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

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

• True
• False

What happens if a population grows past its carrying capacity?

• The population keeps growing

• The population starts to die off

• The entire species will go extinct

• The carrying capacity just increases

The largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term is...

• carrying capacity

• emigration

• immigration

• population density

Something that regulates the size of a population is called...

• a limiting measure

• a limiting factor

• carrying capacity

• biodiversity

Which of the following would INCREASE the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• increase in predators
• disease
• increase in available food
• drought

all the snakes in the area 

• organism 
• ecosystem 
• population