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Analyzing Factors that Affect Carrying Capacity & Biodiversity Assignment Summary: You will be using an online resource to model how various factors can affect the population of lions from Tanzania, Africa. As you go through this simulation, you will need to screenshot your responses for each page as evidence of completion of the assignment. NOTE: The site above does not save your progress, so don’t close the tab once you start, otherwise, you will have to start all over. Page 1 Insert the Screenshot of Your Answer Which of the following is an example of ecology?

Page 2 Insert the Screenshot of Your Answer Which of the following questions interests you most?

Page 3 Insert the Screenshot of Your Answer From 1960 to 1963, the population of lions in the crater decreased. Which of the following is most likely to have been true from 1960-1963?

Page 4 Insert the Screenshot of Your Answer

What would have to be true, on average, from 1952-1956?

Page 5 Insert the Screenshot of Your Answer AND the Graph What do you predict will happen to the lion population after 1963? Explain below. Draw your prediction on the graph to the right, starting in 1964.

Page 6: Insert the Screenshot of Your Graph Draw your prediction on the graph to the right.

Page 7 N/A, Just review the graph. Page 8 Insert the Screenshot of Your Graph In which hour are the bacteria growing the fastest? Pick a point in that hour.

Page 9 Insert the Screenshot of Your Answer Look at the lion population from 1963-1975. Do you think this rate of growth will continue to increase? Why or why not?

Page 10 Insert the Screenshot of Your Answer Using the picture to the right to get started, brainstorm a list of at least three limiting factors that might affect the lion population in the crater.

Page 11 Insert the Screenshot of Your Graph Click a point on the graph where you think competition for space was low for the bacteria.

Page 12 Insert the Screenshot of Your Graph Use the graph to draw your prediction about the lion population from 1980 to 2012.

Page 13 Insert the Screenshot of Your Graph Draw a line to estimate the carrying capacity of the petri dish.

Page 14 Insert the Screenshot of Your Graph Draw a line to estimate the average carrying capacity of the environment prior to the disease outbreak (affecting lions) that took place in the early 1960s.

Page 15 Insert the Screenshot of Your Graph Using what you now know about carrying capacity, redraw a new prediction of the lion population after 1963.

Page 16 Insert the Screenshot of Your Graph Draw your prediction on the graph to the right. Page 16 Insert the Screenshot of Your Answer

Compare your prediction to the real data. What do you notice? If there are differences, can you suggest some causes? Page 17 Insert the Screenshot of Your Answer Which of the following is a density-independent limiting factor that could cause fluctuations in the carrying capacity between 1995 and today?

Page 18 Insert the Screenshot of Your Answer Given the shape of these graphs, do you think Earth’s population will reach carrying capacity? What might be some limiting factors? What do you think will happen if we do reach carrying capacity?

Page 19 Insert the Screenshot of Your Answer In 1-2 sentences, answer one of the questions above....