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Is a limiting factor the largest population size that can be supported by the available resources of an area?
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carrying capacity.
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The largest amount of a population that can be supported by an are is limiting factor true or false?
the largest amount of a population that can be supported by an are is its limiting factor
What is the limiting factor on a population?
Resources.
What are limiting factored for humans?
Control of population growth is based upon limiting factors and population interactions in each ecosystem. These are resources such as food, water, oxygen, and space availability.
What limits the size of a prey population?
Populations are often limited by the amount of food and other resources that are available. They are also limited by natural disasters.
When are resources such as water food or sunlight most likely to be limiting factors?
Resources such as water, food, or sunlight are most likely to be limiting factors when a population is approaching the carrying capacity.
What are limiting factors?
A resource whose availability limits the size of a population is a limiting factor. Food is a limiting factor when there is not enough food available to feed the entire population. Any resource can be a limiting factor for population size.
What does limiting factors mean?
In biology, common limiting factor resources are environmental conditions that limit the growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism or a population of organisms in an ecosystem. :G-11.
What are two enviromental pressures or limiting factors that effect survival?
The amount of resources and how big the population is.
What kind of limiting factor depends on the population size?
Resources such as food, water, space for shelter are some.
What scientist proposed that conditions such as war disease or lack of food play a role in limiting population growth?
Thomas Malthus, an English economist and demographer, proposed in his work "An Essay on the Principle of Population" that population growth is limited by factors such as war, disease, and lack of food. He argued that when these limiting factors are present, they can prevent population from exceeding available resources.
Why would limiting population size help the quality of life?
It would minimize the use of natural resources needed
What are physical and limiting factors of environment?
Resources that are essential for life (limiting factors): Availability of: Water, Food, Shelter, Mates; Predator density, Species: population, Size, Competing
