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If the carrying capacity of the earth was 9 billion people when would this number be reached?
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What term describes the largest number of individuals that an environment can support?
Carrying capacity describes the largest number of individuals that an environment can support.
Carrying capacity refers to?
the number of organisms a habitat can support
Growth ends when a population nears its carrying capacity.?
Exponential
What is a name for the maximum population size an environment can support?
'Carrying Capacity' The maximum number of individuals that a given environment can support without detrimental effects.
As you travel down a group the do atomic size increases or decreases?
it increases: for the atomic number indicates the number of protons and neutrons in the atom; these are the weight carrying particles
What is the carrying capacity of the earth?
The carrying capacity of the Earth is only an estimated number since the data does not exist for an accurate number. It is said that the carrying capacity of the Earth is up to 40 billion people.
How do you know when a carrying capacity has been reached?
It is difficult to define the exact carrying capacity of an organism in its environment. Variables used to determine carrying capacity are primarily the availability of food in a given area to which the organism lives. A carrying capacity can be estimated in a population that exhibits an abrupt decline in numbers immediately after a steady population increase. The carrying capacity has been reached when a given amount of recourses can only support a defined number of species.
What happens when an environment has not reached its carrying capacity for a population?
The population continues to grow.
How is the carrying capacity of a city's roads similar to the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?
Carrying capacity refers to the number of individuals who ccan be supported in a given area.
The number of organism a piece of land can support?
population density
The number of individuals an evironment can sustain for an indefinite period of time is called its?
The largest population a particular environment can support of particular species is called its carrying capacity.
What term describes the largest number of individuals that an environment can support?
Carrying capacity describes the largest number of individuals that an environment can support.
What is the carrying capacity of people living on earth?
A population's carrying capacity is the amount of organisms a certain environment can sustain. If the number of organisms exceeds carrying capacity the resources in the environment will be depleted resulting in a carrying capacity drop followed by a drop in the population of organisms.
What is the carrying capacity of the environment for the particular species?
The "carrying capacity" for a species is the total number of individuals that can get enough food to survive and reproduce.
What is a carrying capacity of the environment for a particular species?
The "carrying capacity" for a species is the total number of individuals that can get enough food to survive and reproduce.
What is used to describe the greatest number of people within a population that an ecosystem can support?
Carrying Capacity:-).
What is a the number of organisms a ecosystem can support?
carrying capacity
