What is an ecosystem?
what is a biosphere?
what is carrying capacity?
what is exponential growth?

1. DescriptionAn ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system.

2. The biosphere, also known as the ecosphere, is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.

3. The carrying capacity of a biological species in an environment is the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment

4. Exponential growth is a specific way that a quantity may increase over time

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explanation:

answer: decrease

a limiting factor is the one which decrease the abundance, distribution and causes extinction of the population of species in a ecosystem. here, predators including hawks, owls and snakes are the limiting factor for the population of mexican free tailed bat.   although bats are nocturnal animals as they forge for food at night these predators also may remain active during night which can decrease the population of the mexican free-tailed bats. also, these bats eat only one type of insects that are moths. the food can also be a limiting factor as all 400 members are dependent upon same type of food needs that are moths. the decrease in the moth population can cause decrease in population size of the mexican free-tailed bats.

therefore, the scenarios will most likely to decrease the population size of the mexican free-tailed bats.