Habitats and Limiting Factors

Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting too large.

• True
• False

True or False: A lack of resources such as food, water, air, shelter, and space are called limiting factors.

• True

• False

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If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then...

• Populations will stay the same

• Populations will decrease

• Populations will increase

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If a disease destroys barley plants that are food for birds in an ecosystem, what would happen to the bird population?

• The bird population would stay the same

• The bird population would increase

• The bird population would decrease

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Hawks eat snakes. If the hawks suddenly increased, what would happen to the snake population?

• The snakes would decrease.

• The snakes would increase.

• The snake population would stay the same.

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If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then...

• Populations will stay the same
• Populations will decrease
• Populations will increase

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The largest number of organisms in a population that the environment can support is called...

• Carrying Capacity

• Limiting Factor

• Biotic factor

• Abiotic factor

What are some abiotic factors that could be limiting factors in the Potomac River ecosystem?

• Temperature, pollution, drought

• new predator, humans fishing

• Temperature, new species, new predator

What happens when an environment reaches its carrying capacity?

• Populations will decrease
• Resources such as food, water, and space will be unlimited
• Populations will increase
• Nothing, everything will stay the same.

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True or False: A predator can be a limiting factors to a group of animals.

• True

• False

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