Limiting Factors

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Limiting Factors

• Integrated Science Guided Notes
• Powerpoint Slides
• Fill in the blanks as we discuss these notes
  during class

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Changes in a ________________ size are determined
by immigration, births, emigration, and deaths.
The size of a population is always changing

• Four factors affecting size
• immigration
• _________
• ___________
• deaths

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Population growth is based on available ________

• ________________growth is a rapid population
  increase due to an abundance of resources.

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• ____________________ is due to a population
  facing limited resources
• Logistic vs Exponential Growth
  Funny Bunnies

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• Carrying capacity is the _____________number of
  individuals in a population that the environment
  can support.

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Predator Prey Relationship

• The predators keep the prey population under
  control and the size of the population of prey
  _________ the amount of predators an ecosystem
  can support.

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Ecosystems Have Living and Nonliving Components

• Biotic
• Living (or once living)
• Interactions
• Competition
• Predator prey
• Symbiosis

• Abiotic
• Water
• Air
• Nutrients
• Rocks
• Heat
• Solar energy
• pH

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Major Biotic and Abiotic Components of an
Ecosystem
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Predation

• Predators
• Use pursuit
• Ambush
• ____________
• Chemical warfare (venom)
• Prey
• Swift movement
• Shell
• Camouflage
• _____________

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PREDATION
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Some ways prey species avoid their prey
Bombardier beetle
Span worm
Wandering leaf insect
Foul-tasting monarch butterfly
When touched, the snake caterpillar changes
shape to look like the head of a snake
Viceroy butterfly mimics monarch butterfly
Poison dart frog
Hind wings of moth resemble eyes of a much
larger animal
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Giant swallowtail butterfly larva (Papilio
cresphontes).
Hawkmoth caterpillar.
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