1) What is Biodiversity? a) A term used to describe the enormous variety of life on Earth. b) A geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms and weather and landscape work together to form a bubble of life. c) An ideal population is at equilibrium with the carrying capacity of its environment, the birth and death rates are equal, and the size of the population does not change. 2) Density-dependent factors include _______ a) Habitat b) Disease c) Species 3) Some common examples of density-dependent limiting factors EXCEPT a) Predation b) Food availability c) Waste accumulation 4) Carrying Capacity is a) The number of individuals living within that specific location determines the population density, or the number of individuals divided by the size of the area. b) The environmental factor that is of predominant importance in restricting the size of a population lack of winter browse is a limiting factor for many deer herds. c) The maximum population that an area will support without undergoing deterioration 5) What is a density-independent factor a) A less diverse ecosystem keeps more resources in the ecosytem. b) Also called a limiting factor, in ecology, any force that affects the size of a population of living things regardless of the density of the population c) Increased biodiversity increases the stability of an ecosystem

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