How Many Frogs Can Live In This Pond

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How Many Frogs Can Live In This Pond?

• A Project Wild Activity

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Frog Facts

• Most frogs dont start their lives as meat
  eaters. Before they become adults, they eat
  mainly bacteria and algae. After metamorphosis,
  their body adapts to digesting animal food rather
  than plant food.

Click here to see a diagram of the life cycle of
a frog.
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The Life Cycle of a Frog
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What things affect frogs?
Can you think of things that could hurt a frogs
habitat?
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Vocabulary

• Limiting Factors influences in the life history
  of any animal, population of animals, or species.

In other words . . .
Limiting Factors Things that can change an
animals habitat.
How Many Bears Can Live in This Forest? From
Project Wild K-12 Curriculum and Activity Guide
p. 23-27
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Limiting Factors

• food
• water
• shelter
• space
• disease
• predators

• climate conditions
• pollution
• hunting/poaching
• natural disasters
• accidents

How Many Bears Can Live in This Forest? From
Project Wild K-12 Curriculum and Activity Guide
p. 23-27
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Think about it . . .

• Describe some of the factors that may limit the
  survival of an animal.
• What might be the consequences to the individual
  animal and to its population if one of these
  limiting factors were no longer limiting?

How Many Bears Can Live in This Forest? From
Project Wild K-12 Curriculum and Activity Guide
p. 23-27