Carrying Capacity and Population Size

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

• continues to grow

• The population will go extinct due to a lack of resources

• The population starts to die off to return to carrying capacity

• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

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If a disease destroying barley in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the barley-eating bird population in the field?

• The bird population will stay the same

• The bird population would increase

• The bird population would decrease

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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

• Grass available

• Sunlight

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Which of the following might result in an increase in the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• An increase in resources

• An increase in limiting factors

• An increase in predators

• All of these

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

• Carrying capacity

• Immigration

• Emigration

• Population Density

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