Limiting Factors
The limiting factor where one organism preys on another.
What is predation?
This term refers to the maximum number of individuals an environment can support without damaging its resources.
What is carrying capacity?
A graph in which the function continues to grow for an infinite amount.
What is an exponential graph?
This biotic factor in an ecosystem helps to break down dead organisms into nutrients that can be reused by other living organisms.
What are decomposers?
This biome has cold temperatures, permafrost, and sparse vegetation, is found near the poles.
What is the Tundra?
This process, dependent on sunlight, is often limited by the amount of available water and nutrients.
What is photosynthesis?
In a population that exceeds the carrying capacity of an environment, this factor is typically the first to become limiting.
What is food or resources?
A growth with a carrying capacity taken account for
What is a Logistic graph?
The availability of this abiotic factor determines if a desert can support plant life
What is water?
This biome has extreme temp. variations and low precipitation
What is the desert?
A shortage of this resource can limit the growth of both plants and animals in most regions.
What is water?
This happens when the population grows beyond its environment's carrying capacity and exhausts available resources.
What is overpopulation?
A graph in which the function has an "S" shape, and does not grow for an infinite amount.
What is a Logistic graph?
A limiting factor that is living.
What is a Biotic factor?
This biome has a thick layer of decaying plant matter and its ability to support a wide range of biodiversity.
What is the tropical rainforest?
This nutrient, often deficient in soils, limits plant growth and crop yields in many parts of the world.
What is nitrogen?
These are factors that can change an ecosystem’s carrying capacity, such as droughts, floods, or disease.
What are limiting factors?
A growth in which the rate in which it grows becomes more and more rapid.
What is an Exponential Growth?
This abiotic factor directly affects the rate of photosysnthesis in plants.
What is sunlight?
This biome is home to the world’s tallest trees, including redwoods and sequoias, and experiences moderate rainfall year-round.
What is the temperate forest?
A animals ability to abstain food and shelter can be altered by this limiting factor.
What is competition?
When a population exceeds its carrying capacity, this often occurs, leading to a decline in population size.
What is a population crash?
This type of growth occurs when a population's growth slows as it approaches the carrying capacity of its environment, forming an S-shaped curve.
What is logistic growth?
A limiting factor that is non-living
What is an Abiotic factor?
Characterized by hot summers, cold winters, and mostly flat, open terrain, this biome is home to large herds of grazing animals like bison and prairie dogs.
What is the temperate grassland?