Limiting Factors
Not having enough food stop animals from having too many babies. Explain the effects.
What is starvation?
A limit to how many animals or plants an environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
Non-living part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
Living part of an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
A large geographic area with similar weather, animals and plants.
What is a biome?
Sickness makes it harder for a population to grow. Explain the effects.
What is populations start to die out?
When an ecosystem reaches it carrying capacity what begins to happen?
What is lack of resources, competition, reduced reproduction, increased death?
Describe an abiotic factor that an organism would use.
What is ________? Examples include: water, sunlight, oxygen...
Describe biotic factors that are used by organisms.
What is ____? Examples include: Plants, animals, bacteria...
A community of living organisms interacting with one another and their non living environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Two or more organisms seek the same resource at the same time.
What is competition?
Habitat loss impacts the carrying capacity of a species.
What is
-reduced resources
-increased competition
- disrupted food chains
-increased predators
The following correctly lists three abiotic factors.
Tree, water, grass
Rocks, sunlight, clouds
Fox, grass, tree
Fox, water, land
What is
2. Rocks, sunlight, clouds?
The following correctly lists three biotic factors.
Tree, water, grass
Rocks, sunlight, clouds
Fox, grass, tree
Fox, water, land
What is
3. Fox, grass, tree ?
All of the different populations living together in the same area.
What is a community?
How does competition affect population growth?
What is competition for resources slows population growth?
Disease affects the carrying capacity of a population.
What is
-increased death rate
-weak individuals
-reduced resources
-altered behavior
List 4 abiotic factors.
What is?
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List 4 biotic factors.
What is?
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All organisms in an area that belong to the same species.
What is a population?
How do limiting factors help keep an ecosystem balanced?
What is limiting factors prevent populations from reaching carrying capacity?
Human activities, such as pollution, influences carrying capacity?
What is
-Contaminating resources
- Destruction of habitat
-Disruption of food chains
-Increased death rates
Examples of non living things that can limit the size of a population?
What is _____? Examples include; Lack of space, water, shelter, climate..
Examples of living things that can limit a population?
What is _______________? Examples include; Disease, lack of food, predator.
An individual living thing.
What is an organism?