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Limiting Factors and Carrying Capacity

Understand the factors that limit population growth and the concept of carrying capacity.

Module

Quarter 3 – Advanced Ecology

Age

Age 11

Duration

10 min

Questions

5

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  1. Question 1

    Multiple choice

    What is the 'carrying capacity' of an ecosystem?

  2. Question 2

    Multiple choice

    Which of these is a limiting factor for a rabbit population?

  3. Question 3

    Multiple choice

    What happens when a population exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment?

  4. Question 4

    True or false

    A population will always keep growing as long as births outnumber deaths.

  5. Question 5

    Matching

    Match each limiting factor to the resource it affects.

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