Ecological Limiting Factors

True or False: Limiting factors can be population dependent and population independent.

• True/Cierto
• False/Falso

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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Which limiting factor would increase due to the number of individuals in a population?

• Unusual weather
• Natural disaster
• Births
• Disease

Which limiting factor is independent of the number of individuals in a population?

• competition
• parasitism/disease
• stress
• natural disasters

Human population grew exponentially after the industrial revolution. Which of the following DOES NOT help determine patterns in human population growth?

• age structure
• births
• deaths
• limiting factors

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

Which of the following is TRUE of predator/prey relationships?

• The amount of prey does not affect the number of predators.
• Herbivores are limited by the number of prey in an ecosystem.
• Humans are not considered predators.
• The number of predators is determined by available prey.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• Density Independent limiting factors start to occur resulting in the population going farther above carrying capacity.
• Density Dependent limiting factors start to occur resulting in the population going back below carrying capacity.
• The population will go extinct due to lack of resources
• The population grows then finds a new carrying capacity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The total number of individuals a habitat can survive with the resources it has available.

• Carrying capacity
• Limiting factors
• Resources
• Population

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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.

• density-independent
• density-dependent
• density- too high
• density- too low

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Natural disasters can be considered limiting factors.

• true: density independent limiting factors

• false; natural disasters are not limiting factors

• true: density dependent limiting factors

• false: because they are not limiting

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

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

• Density Independent Limiting Factors
• Density Dependent Limiting Factors
• Carrying Capacity
• Exponential Growth