
Limiting Factors
Authored by Janey Howe
Biology
6th - 8th Grade
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This quiz covers the essential ecological concepts of limiting factors and species interactions, targeting middle school students at the 6th to 8th grade level. The questions assess students' understanding of how environmental factors regulate population sizes, including the availability of food, water, shelter, and space as key limiting factors that prevent populations from growing beyond their ecosystem's carrying capacity. Students must demonstrate knowledge of predator-prey relationships, understanding how changes in one population directly impact another through feeding relationships. The quiz also requires mastery of symbiotic relationships, distinguishing between mutualism (both species benefit), commensalism (one benefits, other unaffected), and parasitism (one benefits, other is harmed), along with the ability to identify hosts and parasites in these interactions. Students need to apply cause-and-effect reasoning to predict population changes when limiting factors shift, such as disease outbreaks, resource availability changes, or predator population fluctuations. Created by Janey Howe, a Biology teacher in the US who teaches grades 6 and 8. This quiz serves as an excellent formative assessment tool to gauge student comprehension of fundamental ecological principles before moving to more complex ecosystem dynamics. Teachers can deploy this as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge, assign it as homework to reinforce classroom learning, or use it as a review tool before summative assessments on ecology units. The varied question formats, from true/false to scenario-based applications, make it particularly effective for identifying misconceptions about population dynamics and species relationships. This assessment aligns with Next Generation Science Standards MS-LS2-1 (analyzing predator-prey relationships and factors affecting populations) and MS-LS2-4 (constructing arguments about factors that limit population growth), providing teachers with clear evidence of student mastery in these critical life science concepts.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting too large.
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NGSS.MS-LS2-4
NGSS.MS-LS2-1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A snake is eaten by a hawk. The hawk is the _______.
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NGSS.MS-LS2-3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When there is a lack of resources such as food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space this is often called __________.
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-4
NGSS.MS-LS2-1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
If the population of a certain predator increases, there is often _______ its prey
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NGSS.MS-LS2-4
NGSS.MS-LS2-2
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then...
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-4
NGSS.MS-LS2-1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.
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NGSS.MS-LS2-4
NGSS.MS-LS2-1
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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 ?
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NGSS.MS-LS2-4
NGSS.MS-LS2-1
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