Limiting Factors and Carrying Capacity

If the amount of food resources increases, the population of an animal would

• increase

• decrease

• stay the same

• go extinct

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The largest amount that an environment can support

• limiting factor

• carrying capacity

• ecosystem

• population

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environmental factors that cause a population to stop growing or decrease in size

• carrying capacity

• limiting factor

• ecosystem

• community

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Which of these is an example of a limiting factor

• food

• predators

• weather conditions

• disease

• all of the above

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If a disease that destroyed oak trees came through an ecosystem, what would happen to the acorn eating squirrel population?

• nothing - it would stay the same

• the squirrel population would increase

• the squirrel population would decrease

• none of the above

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Which of the following is not a limiting factor for rabbits?

• sunlight

• grass

• water

• foxes

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All living things need ________ to survive.

• water

• space

• food

• all of the above

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When a population continues to grow past its carrying capacity, the population will go extinct.

• True

• False

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Diseases spread more quickly when populations are small.

• True

• False

Weather conditions are not considered a limiting factor.

• True

• False

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