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April 2015 documents with 3 worksheets on carrying capacity
Typology: Exercises
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4 years? 6 years? 7 years?
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5a) Define limiting factors
Carrying capacity
number of rabbits
b) List as many biotic and abiotic factors that affect the carrying capacity of an ecosystem (in other words limits the number of individuals in a population).
BIOTIC FACTORS ABIOTIC FACTORS
c) Organize your factors in the following arrows to show if they increase or decrease the number of individuals an ecosystem can support. You may need to include words like increase, or decrease. Some factors can go in both arrows
ECOLOGIST CONFERENCE – Worksheet 3
You are a park ecologist who has just received environmental monitoring data in the form of graphs from your field technician. You now have to determine what is happening to the populations of a number of species in your park.
Look at each of the following graphs and see if you can describe the story they are telling. What is happening to the populations and carrying capacity for each? Confer with your fellow ecologist and brainstorm to come up with reasons behind the story of the graph. Be ready to share and defend your reasons with all the other ecologists in the park.
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population carrying capacity
