Carrying Capacity Lesson

The largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term is...

• carrying capacity

• emigration

• immigration

• population density

What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

• around 500

• more than 800

• less than 300

• around 700

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Which of the following would INCREASE the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• increase in predators

• disease

• increase in available food

• drought

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Something that regulates the size of a population is called...

• a limiting measure

• a limiting factor

• carrying capacity

• biodiversity

The ________________ capacity of an environment is limited by the availability of biotic and abiotic resources.

• external

• carrying

• limiting

• interacting

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The maximum number of organisms an ecosystem can support is called the -

• limiting factor.

• carrying capacity.

• abiotic facotr

• biotic factor

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Which of the following is a biotic factor that would affect the carrying capacity of a population?

• Soil

• Predator

• Rainfall

• Sunlight

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The carrying capacity of an ecosystem is determined by which of the following factors?

• A) Only biotic factors

• B) Only abiotic factors

• C) Both biotic and abiotic factors

• D) Neither biotic nor abiotic factors

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Which of the following scenarios would most likely lead to a decrease in the carrying capacity of a habitat?

• A) An increase in food supply

• B) A decrease in water availability

• C) A stable climate

• D) An increase in shelter availability

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In a laboratory experiment, a population of bacteria is grown in a petri dish. What happens when the population reaches the carrying capacity of the dish?

• A) The population continues to grow exponentially

• B) The population size stabilizes

• C) The population size decreases to zero

• D) The population size fluctuates wildly

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