Population Growth and Limiting Factors

When a specific population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?

• Density Independent limiting factors start to occur resulting in the population going farther above carrying capacity.
• Density Dependent limiting factors start to occur resulting in the population going back below carrying capacity.
• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The total number of individuals a habitat can survive with the resources it has available.

• Carrying capacity
• Limiting factors
• Resources
• Population

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

If the amount of food or resources available increases, the carrying capacity for an animal:

• Stays the same
• Increases
• Decreases
• Fluctuates

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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 it said in the textbook

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Limiting factors which impact the size of a population no matter how large that population are ....

• Density Independent Factors

• Density Dependent Factors

• Carrying Capacity Factors

• Exponential Growth Factors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4