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WorksheetsCarrying Capacity and Limiting Factors
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The number of individuals a habitat can sustain with the resources it has available
a)
Carrying capacity
b)
Limiting factors
c)
Resources
d)
Population
2.
A supply of materials in a habitat
a)
Resources
b)
Biomes
c)
Organisms
d)
Groceries
3.
Which of the following is an EXAMPLE of a limiting factor?
a)
Water
b)
the color of the sky
c)
Migration
d)
Thick fur
4.
Which of the following is an example of competition?
a)
Two vultures fight over a dead rabbit
b)
A bear eats a fish
c)
Birds migrate south
d)
Pet dog keeps a man company
5.
Which is an example of mutualism?
a)
Lion hunts and eats a zebra
b)
A bird eats harmful parasites off of an ox's skin
c)
Two wolves fight over territory
d)
A herd of horses eat grass
6.
What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?
a)
1000
b)
8000
c)
800
d)
600
7.
What is the carrying capacity of the graph?
a)
around 500
b)
more than 500
c)
less than 500
d)
around 600
8.
When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?
a)
Continues to grow
b)
The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity
c)
The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
d)
The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity
9.
If a disease destroying barley plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the barley eating bird population in the the field ?
a)
The bird population would stay the same
b)
The bird population would infinitely increase
c)
The bird population would decrease
10.
If the amount of food or resources available increases, the carrying capacity for an animal:
a)
Stays the same
b)
Increases
c)
Decreases
d)
Fluctuates
11.
In a forest ecosystem, which of the following is the best example of a limiting factor for a rabbit population?
a)
Squirrel Population
b)
Sunlight
c)
Grass available
12.
If the carrying capacity of a predator decreases, what will happen to the carrying capacity of the prey?
a)
Will Increase
b)
Will Decrease
c)
Will stay the same
d)
Will fluctuate
13.
The parasitic wasp injects its larvae into caterpillars . Acid rain has destroyed the caterpillar population. What will happen to the wasp population?
a)
Stay the same
b)
Increase
c)
Decrease
14.
The largest number of individuals in a species that an environment can support long term
a)
carrying capacity
b)
emigration
c)
immigration
d)
population density
15.
Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population is known as __________.
a)
a limiting measure
b)
a limiting factor
c)
carrying capacity
d)
biodiversity
16.
Which of the following would INCREASE the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?
a)
increase in predators
b)
disease
c)
increase in available food
d)
drought
17.
Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting to large.
a)
True
b)
False
18.
What will happen to the population when the death rate is larger than the birth rate?
a)
grow
b)
shrink
c)
stay the same
19.
What type of growth is represented in this graph?
a)
exponential
b)
logistics
c)
a good kind
d)
representative
20.
What type of growth is represented by this graph?
a)
exponential
b)
logistics
c)
a good kind
d)
representative
21.
A relationship between two species where one benefits while the other is harmed.
a)
Mutualism
b)
Commensalism
c)
Parasitism
d)
Naturalism
22.
Anything that would keep a population from growing larger.
a)
Symbiosis
b)
Limiting Factors
c)
Carrying capacity
23.
Which of the following is NOT a limiting factor?
a)
Increase in predators
b)
Food shortage
c)
Natural Disasters
d)
Symbiosis
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