Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors

What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

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

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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 _____________ limiting factor.

• Abiotic

• biotic

• density- too high
• density- too low

What will happen if all of the frogs in a population die?

• The frogs' predators will decrease and the frogs' prey will increase

• The frogs' predators will increase and the frogs' prey will decrease

• We better all pray because there isn't anymore frogs.

What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 1.8 million
• 1.25 million
• 1.6 million
• 1.o million

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

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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

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

Parasites and diseases will ______________ the size of a population which makes them examples of limiting factors.

• Increase

• Decrease

• Stay the same

Temperature

• Biotic (living)

• Abiotic (non-Living)

Tree

• Biotic (living)

• Abiotic (non-living)