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WorksheetsCarrying capacities
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is the carrying capacity of the graph?
1000
8000
800
600
What happens if a population grows past its carrying capacity?
The population keeps growing
The population starts to die off
The entire species will go extinct
The carrying capacity just increases
This may cause a population to increase
increase of food supply
removal of predators
removal of disease
all of these
The largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term is...
carrying capacity
emigration
immigration
population density
Something that regulates the size of a population is called...
a limiting measure
a limiting factor
carrying capacity
biodiversity
What is the carrying capacity of the graph?
around 500
more than 800
less than 300
around 700
When death rate is equal to birth rate...
population increases
population decreases
population stays the same.
population rapidly increases then becomes stable
When the death rate rises and the birth rate lowers...
population increases
population decreases
population stays the same
all of these
When birth rate is high and death rate is low...
population increases
population decreases
population stays the same
all of these
In a forest ecosystem, which of the following is NOT an example of a limiting factor that would greatly affect a rabbit population?
a rainy season
a disease that causes rabbits to die
grass available to eat
the population of hawks that eat rabbits
When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?
It continues to grow higher and higher.
The population starts to die off and returns to the carrying capacity.
The population will go extinct due to lack of resources.
If the carrying capacity of a predator decreases, what will happen to the carrying capacity of the prey?
Will Increase
Will Decrease
Will stay the same
Food, water, sunlight, air, soil are resources that are often __________.
limiting factors
wet
carrying capacity
found in rocks
