When scientists want to discover how limiting factors affect a population in a specific ecosystem, they may choose to pursue scientific inquiry by investigating to learn more. Now it's your turn to give it a try! In this lab, you will be investigating the effect of increasing and decreasing the number of limiting factors on a population of cricket frogs in the Florida Everglades. As you work through the lab, be sure to complete the Limiting Factors Lab Report. You will submit your completed lab report for grading. Review the grading rubric before you begin.

1. seamount a raised footwall block between normal fault creates this 2. syncline break between rocks where a hanging wall rises relative to a footwall 3. hot spring on rolling hills, this a dip between hills 4. volcanic neck created when a block with hanging walls slips down between normal faults 5. caldera underwater volcano that never reaches above sea level 6. horst natural hot water on earth's surface containing many minerals 7. graben underwater volcano whose top is eroded flat by waves 8. crater less than a mile in diameter; looks like a bowl at the top of a volcano 9. guyot magma that filled the central vent that remains after the volcano has eroded 10. reverse fault over 1 mile in diameter; looks like a bowl over a volcano