5-2 Limits to Growth Objectives: You will Photo Credit: ©Bruce Coleman, LTD/Natural Selection Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall

Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall Vocabulary limiting factor Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall

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Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Cape May Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Figure 5.2 Sharing the wealth: Resource partitioning among five species of insect-eating warblers in the spruce forests of the U.S. state of Maine. Each species spends at least half its feeding time in its associated yellow-highlighted areas of these spruce trees. Fig. 5-2, p. 103

Figure 4. 17 This giant panda is eating a stalk from a bamboo tree Figure 4.17 This giant panda is eating a stalk from a bamboo tree. Bamboo stalks and leaves make up about 95% of the diet of this specialist species. Fig. 4-17, p. 93

SPOTLIGHT Cockroaches: Nature’s Ultimate Survivors Figure 4-A

Density-Dependent Factors Wolf and Moose Populations on Isle Royale The relationship between moose and wolves on Isle Royale illustrates how predation can affect population growth. In this example, the moose population was also affected by changes in food supply, and the wolf population was also affected by disease. Moose Wolves Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall

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Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall 5-2 A limiting factor that affects all populations in similar ways regardless of their size might be drought. disease. predation. crowding. Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall

Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall 5-2 Which of the following would be a limiting factor affecting the panda population of China? programs that educate people about endangered species capture of some pandas for placement in zoos laws protecting habitat destruction a disease that kills bamboo plants Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall

Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall 5-2 Parasites are most effective when a population is large and dense. large but sparse. small and sparse. small, but growing. Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall

Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall 5-2 If the population of a predator increases, the population of its prey is likely to increase. decrease. remain about the same. become extinct. Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall

Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall 5-2 Which of the following does not depend on the size of the population? predation disease a destructive hurricane parasites Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall