Limiting Factors

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What happens to a population when it grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity?

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Density Dependent limiting factors start to occur resulting in the population going back below carrying capacity.

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What is the carrying capacity of the graph? Options: around 500, more than 500, less than 500, around 600

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around 500

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What is the carrying capacity of the following graph? Options: 1000, 8000, 800, 600

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1000

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The total number of individuals that can survive in an habitat over time with the resources it has available.

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Carrying capacity

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If the amount of food or resources available increases, the carrying capacity for an animal:

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Increases

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Excessive amounts of rain caused a flood in the southwest United States that resulted in substantial amounts of deaths in the rabbit population. This situation is an example of a density _____________ limiting factor.

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density-independent

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Natural disasters can be considered limiting factors.

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True: density independent limiting factors

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Limiting factors which impact the size of a population no matter how large that population is.

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Density Independent Limiting Factors

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An environmental factor such as storms and extreme heat or cold that decrease a population are considered to be.

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density-independent factor

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A lion and a cheetah attempt to occupy the same niche. The more aggressive lion survives; the cheetah does not. Options: Density-Dependent: Competition, Density-Independent: Competition, Density-Dependent: Predator-Prey, Density-Independent: Predator-Prey

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Density-Dependent: Competition