1. Name three essential components of habitat (things animals need to survive).
A. Food
B. Shelter
C. Water
2. Explain what caused the increase of “deer” during the activity you participated in.
More resources caused deer population to increase
3. Explain what caused the decrease of “deer” during the activity you participated in.
Lack of resources
4. Define the term limiting factor. Give examples of limiting factors for the deer in our activity.
Limiting factor is a resource that is limited An example of this is food water and shelter
5. Graph the data from the activity and attach to this sheet (make sure to correctly title and label
the axes). Describe what the graph of our data looks like. How and why did our deer
population change?
A. Food
B. Shelter
C. Water
2. Explain what caused the increase of “deer” during the activity you participated in.
More resources caused deer population to increase
3. Explain what caused the decrease of “deer” during the activity you participated in.
Lack of resources
4. Define the term limiting factor. Give examples of limiting factors for the deer in our activity.
Limiting factor is a resource that is limited An example of this is food water and shelter
5. Graph the data from the activity and attach to this sheet (make sure to correctly title and label
the axes). Describe what the graph of our data looks like. How and why did our deer
population change?
This graph shows how the population is constant, it will keep on changing over time depending on the season
6. Often we use the phrase “balance of nature” to describe a healthy ecosystem. Based on our graph, what does the “balance of nature” look like? Should we expect populations to be static (unchanging) or do they naturally fluctuate? Explain
I think that our population will naturally fluctuate because there are limited resources and when they die they become in to new resources and the population increases then the same thing happens again and again
7. What did you learn about population dynamics by doing this activity?
I learned that when there arn't enough resources the population will decrease and soon it will increase. Also when a disaster happens the population will increase since the resource turned into something else that the organism can use to increase population
6. Often we use the phrase “balance of nature” to describe a healthy ecosystem. Based on our graph, what does the “balance of nature” look like? Should we expect populations to be static (unchanging) or do they naturally fluctuate? Explain
I think that our population will naturally fluctuate because there are limited resources and when they die they become in to new resources and the population increases then the same thing happens again and again
7. What did you learn about population dynamics by doing this activity?
I learned that when there arn't enough resources the population will decrease and soon it will increase. Also when a disaster happens the population will increase since the resource turned into something else that the organism can use to increase population