Predator-Prey Cycles & Carrying Capacity

According to the graph, what is causing the deer population to decrease

• They got sick

• The wolf population is decreasing

• The wolf population increased

• They ran out of food

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Predator population lags behind prey population because......

• Increase in predators leads to decrease in prey

• Increase in predators leads to increase in prey

• Increase in predators leads to decrease in producers

• Increase in producers leads to increase in prey

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What statement is TRUE about the graph?

• The prey is the green line because there needs to be more prey than predators.
• The prey is the red line because there needs to be more predators than prey.
• The green line is the producers
• The red line is the producers

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The largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term is...

• carrying capacity

• emigration

• immigration

• population density

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Something that regulates the size of a population is called...

• a limiting measure

• a limiting factor

• carrying capacity

• biodiversity

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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

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What are factors that affect carrying capacity?

• Biotic only

• Biotic and abiotic

• Depends on the ecosystem

• Abiotic only

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Which of the following would INCREASE the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• increase in predators
• disease
• increase in available food
• drought

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What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

• 1000

• 8000

• 800

• 600

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This may cause a population to increase

• increase of food supply

• removal of predators

• removal of disease

• all of these

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