Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors

What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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Will competition increase/decrease the carrying capacity of an ecosystem for the animal in competition?

• Decrease
• Increase

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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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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 ?

• The bird population would stay the same
• The bird population would infinitely increase
• The bird population would decrease

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

• Stays the same
• Increases
• Decreases
• Fluctuates

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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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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
• Will fluctuate

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

• True
• False

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