Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors--Rivera

When a population grows past the ecosystem's carrying capacity, what happens to the population?

• Continues to grow
• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capcity
• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

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The largest number of individuals in a species that an environment can support long term

• carrying capacity
• emigration
• immigration
• population density

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Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting to large.

• True
• False

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_{^{The  number of individuals a habitat can sustain with the resources it has available}}

• Carrying capacity
• Limiting factors
• Resources
• Population

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Which of the following is an EXAMPLE of a limiting factor?

• Water
• the color of the sky
• Migration
• Thick fur

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Which of the following is an example of competition?

• Two vultures fight over a dead rabbit
• A bear eats a fish
• Birds migrate south
• Pet dog keeps a man company

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^{In a forest ecosystem, which of the following is the best example of a limiting factor for a rabbit population?}

• Squirrel Population
• Sunlight
• Grass available

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_{Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population is known as __________.}

• a limiting measure
• a limiting factor
• carrying capacity
• biodiversity

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Anything that would keep a population from growing larger.

• Symbiosis
• Limiting Factors
• Carrying capacity

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What is a producer?

• Organism that makes its own energy
• Organism that breaks down dead organisms
• Organism that eats other organisms for food & energy

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