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WebQuest #2: Limits to growth

What factors limit population growth? You have been introduced to this in the Visual WebLecture and WebQuest 1. Now we will expand. Follow the instructions for a simulation of
populations responding to these factors.
This link takes you to the same website you used for the bison population activity. Follow these
directions to go to Chapter 14: What Limits Population Growth

Click this link to go to the website

Select High School Science, California, find your book
Click on Biology 2010
Click on Animated Biology
Click on Unit 5: Ecology, and Chapter 14: What Limits Population Growth

To answer the following questions, refer to this limiting factors document

1) Growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism or a population of organisms in an
ecosystem is controlled by

2) Define density-independent limiting factors. Give six examples.

3) Define density-dependent limiting factors. Give four examples

4) From the article Yellow Perch in Lake Winnipeg, identify and describe densityindependent limiting factors

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5) From the article, identify and describe density-independent limiting factors

Watch this video on predator-prey relationships.

1) Does the relation described apply only to predator/prey relations? Explain

2) Explain the pyramid analogy

3) Describe coevolution

4) Describe mimicry