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Limiting Factors

Limiting Factors. Integrated Science Guided Notes Powerpoint Slides Fill in the blanks as we discuss these notes during class. Changes in a ________________ size are determined by immigration, births, emigration, and deaths. Four factors affecting size immigration _________ ___________

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Limiting Factors

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

  2. Changes in a ________________ size are determined by immigration, births, emigration, and deaths. Four factors affecting size immigration _________ ___________ deaths The size of a population is always changing

  3. Population growth is based on available ________ ________________growth is a rapid population increase due to an abundance of resources.

  4. ____________________ is due to a population facing limited resources Logistic vs Exponential GrowthFunny Bunnies

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

  6. 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.

  7. Ecosystems Have Living and Nonliving Components Abiotic Water Air Nutrients Rocks Heat Solar energy pH • Biotic • Living (or once living) • Interactions • Competition • Predator – prey • Symbiosis

  8. Major Biotic and Abiotic Components of an Ecosystem

  9. Predators Use pursuit Ambush ____________ Chemical warfare (venom) Prey Swift movement Shell Camouflage _____________ Predation 10

  10. PREDATION 11

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  15. 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 Poison dart frog Viceroy butterfly mimics monarch butterfly Hind wings of moth resemble eyes of a much larger animal

  16. Giant swallowtail butterfly larva (Papilio cresphontes). Hawkmoth caterpillar. 17

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