On Thursday, the whole class participated in an activity called “Oh Deer!” , this was a game that stimulated the different types of factors which would have an effect on the population. From this activity I learned and fully understood what would happen when a population reached its maximum capacity. In the deer situation, when the deer were out of resources, the number would decrease and thus less competition and after a while the population would reach the maximum capacity and due to the intense competition the population would again go down. Therefore, when this pattern was shown on a graph, a wave was shown, which showed the constant increase and decrease of the deer population. Furthermore, I learned that there were two factors, the density-dependent and the density-independent factor. The density-dependent factor in the activity were the resources and natural disasters while the density-independent factors were the wolfs. In the game, no matter how much the density-dependent affected the population, the specie would not become extinct; however in the density-independent part of the game, it only took a while before the whole deer population became extinct. I also noticed that when the deer population was large, the wolf population was small; on the other hand, when the wolf population was big, the deer population was small.  Overall, I felt that this activity was really fun, and helped me have a real experience of how the two factors could affect a population. Now when reading the textbook, I can have a mental image in my head. I hope we can have more fun and engaging activities and games.