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Science-Limiting Factors, Carrying Capacity, Biotic Potential

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Simple fun video to help understand these terms for Science Ch2

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bunnies  wholesome cute friendly lovable the only conclusion they must be up to something at some point in your life you probably stopped and wondered wiring bunnies taking over the world when bunnies enter a new area they quickly begin to reproduce and a prettiest and reproduce and reproduce then why are we taking over the world what stops us from continuously growing our population limiting factors it's what prevents you from taking over the world limiting factors are something that controls the growth of a population in an area and prevents it from going past certain the map Smoky can I get rid of these limiting factors  it's not as simple as that I'll give you some examples but you can't just get rid of them examples of limiting factors are water food air space shelter competition Hunters light mates disease climate in the seasons well those are a lot of limiting factors here can be even more sorry but you probably won't so how big can a population grow it depends on the limiting factors Siri has it can only hold so many bunnies the carrying capacity is the maximum number of organisms a single species that an area can hold for example the carrying capacity of a 10 gallon fish tank is 10 small Guppies is the current capacity of an always the same  nope it can change depending on the weather or seasons for example  so when the temperate deciduous forest with a caring menu for Buddy's be greater in the summer and less in the winter  yes because in the winter not only is it colder but there are less plants for the bunnies to eat so what you're saying is that we should start our plot for world domination from a biome with model no Winters yes so what would happen if there were no limiting factors  without a limit or carrying capacity ism's would grow and grow and grow and grow until things went out of control a female rabbit can give birth to over 40 baby rabbits a year hoes all of her Offspring survive and reproduce and all of all of their offspring survive and reproduce and so on if that happened in only eight years the mass of rabbits would exceed the mass of we buddies had the potential to take over the world yes in fact it's called biotic potential biotic potential is the possible number of organisms of a species that can be reproduced if there were no limiting factors for example in 7 years with unlimited resources that would be about 180 4597000000 430 3860 bunnies so they were Diddy limiting factors bunnies could take over the Earth but there would do you think what to take over  I guess limiting factors and carrying capacity are good things  if my plane listen to The Bunny study these words curiosity biotic potential and

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