Limiting Factors & Carrying Capacity

What do limiting factors do?

• Separate biotic factors from abiotic factors.

• Determine which is the predator and which is the prey.

• Regulate how many organisms live in an ecosystem.

• Determine which natural disasters will hit an area.

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What type of population growth curve is shown in this graph?

• Exponential

• Logistic

• Boom and Bust

• Predator-Prey

What type of population growth curve is shown in this graph?

• Exponential

• Logistic

• Boom and Bust

• Predator-Prey

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In the graph to the right, what is the population of deer at the carrying capacity of the environment?

• 3

• 7

• 70

• 40

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If a disease destroying barley plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the barley eating bird population in the the field ?

• The bird population would stay the same
• The bird population would infinitely increase
• The bird population would decrease

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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 _______ ______ limiting factor.

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

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A lion and a cheetah attempt to occupy the same niche. The more aggressive lion survives; the cheetah does not. What type of limiting factor is this?

• Density-Dependent: Competition

• Density-Independent: Competition

• Density-Dependent: Predator-Prey

• Density-Independent: Predator-Prey

The amount of water available limit the growth of a population?

• True

• False

• Unsure

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What is an example of a density dependent limiting factor?

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How confident do you feel about limiting factors and carrying capacity?

• not confident at all

• somewhat confident

• mostly confident

• very confident

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