Question

I've been sitting on this question for a while so I decided to finally ask for help here.

Populations of organisms grow at an _____________________ rate, but ____________ factors such as food, habitat, predators, weather, disease, climate, & temperature can affect the maximum population size an area can support.

At first I wanted to put in "stable" and "biotic", but the "an" before the first blank space seems to imply its a word that starts with a vowel and the second blank uses abiotic and biotic factors, so I'm just stumped on what biology vocab words I'm supposed to put in.

Answer 1

well i figured the first blank is probably exponential, still not sure on the second blank.

Answer 2

Biotic factors are all the living things in an ecosystem, habitat, or biome. They can be producers, consumers, or decomposers. In contrast, abiotic factors are the non-living components of an environment. So I don't think biotic would be correct for the second blank.

Answer 3

Well my best guess for the second blank is keystone now. I've only seen it applied to species so far in my text book and assignments though, so a confirmation would be nice.

Answer 4

It could be, im not entirely sure...what about a limiting factor?

Answer 5

Yeah I finished the rest of the assignment, and the answer for the question after is keystone, so I doubt they would reuse the same answer right away. Limiting fits the best here, thanks for the help.

Answer 6

np:)

Answer 7

Geometric Progression