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Orchids are flowering plants that depend on bees for pollination. A population of orchids in a rainforest has reached its carrying capacity. The size of the rainforest's bee population is a limiting factor of the orchid population. What will happen to the orchids' carrying capacity if the rainforest's bee population decreases? A. The carrying capacity will not change because it is a constant property of a species. B. The carrying capacity will not change because it is a constant property of an ecosystem. C. The carrying capacity will decrease because the level of the limiting factor decreases. D. The carrying capacity will increase because the level of the limiting factor decreases.
Answer :C. The carrying capacity will decrease because the level of the limiting factor decreases.
Step-by-step explanation:
The carrying capacity of a system is how much population an habitat can sustain depending on the available resources without leading to competition. This resources include food, water, space.
Since Rain forest bee is a limiting factor for orchid therefore Orchid population is dependent on the Rainforest bee's population so a decrease in the bee's population will lead to a decrease in the orchid population.
This will then lead us to a decrease in the carrying capacity of the system due reduction in the population of the limiting factor the bee because carrying capacity is population dependent.