Limiting Factors and Carrying Capacity

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

• True
• False

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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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What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

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

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Carrying capacity is...

• The maximum number of individuals that can fit into an area

• Ability of an area to accommodate a growing population

• The greatest # of individuals an area can support over time.

• The maximum number of species that can co-exist in an area

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Select all the ABIOTIC limiting factors

• climate change

• seasons

• reproductive environements

• predataion

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Select all the BIOTIC limiting factors

• disease

• resourses

• competition

• predataion

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Which organism has the

GREATEST reproductive potential?

• elephant

• atlantic cod

• human

• dog

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What does the overall carrying capacity of an ecosystem depend on?

• primary producers

• consumers

• predators

• amount of night time

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This may cause a population to increase

• increase of food supply

• removal of predators

• removal of disease

• all of these

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What are factors that affect carrying capacity?

• Biotic only

• Biotic and abiotic

• Depends on the ecosystem

• Abiotic only

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