Limiting Factors

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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Excessive amounts of rain caused a flood in the southwest United States that resulted in substantial amounts of deaths in the rabbit population? This situation is an example of a density _____________ limiting factor.

• density-independent
• density-dependent
• density- too high
• density- too low

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Natural disasters can be considered limiting factors.

• true: density independent limiting factors

• false; natural disasters are not limiting factors

• true: density dependent limiting factors

• false: because Mrs. Schaffer said

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

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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

A lion and a cheetah attempt to occupy the same niche. The more aggressive lion survives; the cheetah does not.

• Density-Dependent: Competition

• Density-Independent: Competition

• Density-Dependent: Predator-Prey

• Density-Independent: Predator-Prey

Coyotes cross the winter pack ice and enter Newfoundland. The moose population starts to decline.

• Density-Dependent: Competition

• Density-Independent: Competition

• Density-Dependent: Predator-Prey

• Density-Independent: Predator-Prey

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Travelers who visit a crowded African village become infected with a disease caused by parasites.

• Density-Dependent

• Density-Independent

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Many fish die due to a change in the winds and the appearance of the El Nino ocean current off the coast of Peru and Chile.

• Density-Dependent

• Density-Independent

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Fish on a coral reef stake out their territory and chase away any younger fish that try to live there.

• Density-Dependent

• Density-Independent

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

An extensive drought in the Serengeti Plain threatens wildebeest, giraffe, zebra, and springbok populations.

• Density-Dependent

• Density-Independent

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4