Carrying Capacity Limiting Factor

Which of the following is an example of an abiotic limiting factor on population size?

• water availability

• Availability of food

• disease

• predation

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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

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What does the yellow line represent?

• exponential growth

• logistic growth

• carrying capacity

• none of the above

What type of growth model is shown in image A?

• Exponential

• Logistic

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What point on the graph represents the carrying capacity?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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The wolf goes extinct, and the deer population has no predator to worry about. They graze the land. Because there is no more food. Some of the deer begin to bite at each other, while others die of starvation. What is the limiting factor to the deep population?

• Competition

• Overcrowding

• Predator-Prey Relationships

• Herbivory Effect

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The largest number of individuals that an area can support is called its _______.

• limiting factor

• abiotic factor

• resource availability

• carrying capacity

Which of the following is a biotic limiting factor that can affect the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• A) Predation

• B) Temperature

• C) Water availability

• D) Soil pH

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What term describes the maximum population size that an environment can sustain indefinitely?

• A) Limiting factor

• B) Carrying capacity

• C) Population density

• D) Ecological footprint

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How does competition for resources affect the carrying capacity of a habitat?

• A) It increases the carrying capacity

• B) It decreases the carrying capacity

• C) It has no effect on the carrying capacity

• D) It stabilizes the carrying capacity

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