Carrying Capacity Limiting Factor

What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

• around 500

• more than 500

• less than 500

• around 600

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What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000

• 8000

• 800

• 600

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What is the carrying capacity for this sheep population?

• 8 million

• 25 million

• 6 million

• o million

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Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are  __________.

• limiting factors

• wet

• messy

• found in rocks

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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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Parasites and diseases will ______________ the size of a population, so the are examples of limiting factors.

• Increase

• Decrease

• Stay the same

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What do limiting factors do?

• Separate biotic factors from abiotic factors.

• Determine which is the predator and which is the prey.

• Regulate how many organisms live in an ecosystem.

• Determine which natural disasters will hit an area.

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Which of the following is a biotic limiting factor?

• The amount of breathable oxygen available to a population.

• The nitrogen to oxygen ratio in the air supply.

• Food available for organisms.

• The number of bodies of water in a habitat.

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In biology, what is carrying capacity?

• 
  How much weight an organism can lift.

• The maximum population size an ecosystem can support.

• A total list of the limiting factors.

• How much pain an organism can tolerate.

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The size of the population of a species in an ecosystem is determined by the ________factors available to them.

• writing and drawing

• chemistry

• biotic and abiotic

• blanket and pillow

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