Limiting Factors

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

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• prey
• parasite
• predator
• all of these

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

• around 500
• more than 500
• less than 500
• around 600

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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NGSS.HS-LS2-1

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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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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