Limiting Factor

What is a limiting factor?

• Factors that always increase a population

• Factors that always decrease a population

• Resources that are unlimited

• Factors/resources that limit how many organisms can live in an area at the same time

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Choose the 4 limiting factors.

• Food

• Water

• Time

• Space

• Shelter

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What is NOT an example of limiting factors?

• Predation

• Food Source

• Space

• Migration

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Which of the following statements is true?

• A decrease in food availability lowers carrying capacity.

• An increase in water will decrease the carrying capacity.

• A fishes population cannot exceed the carrying capacity.

• A population stays level once at carrying capacity.

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True or False: A natural disaster is an example of a limiting factor.

• True

• False

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Which of the following could NOT prevent a population from growing?

• Food

• Disease

• Space

• Migration

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If a population of gazelle decrease, the population of cheetahs will...

• Decrease

• Increase

• Stay the same

• Cheetahs don't eat gazelle

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Factors that keep the number of organisms from growing too large

• Biotic factors

• Abiotic factors

• Limiting Factors

• Carrying Capacity

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Factors in the environment that depends on the number of organisms in a population.

• Density Dependent

• Density Independent

Which of these is an example of a limiting factor

• food

• predators

• weather conditions

• disease

• all of the above

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