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Q: What is it called when there are not enough resources for individual organisms?
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Why do all organisms face a struggle to survive when natural resources are limited?

Living beings need a certain amount of resources to live. If resources are limited then organisms must struggle against others to get enough resources to keep living.


What is caryying capacity?

The amount of organisms that can live in an area with enough resources to go around.


Why cant population of bacteria or any other biological organism keep increasing exponentially forever?

Organisms start to compete for resources.


What prevents most organisms from increasing their numbers at their maximum possible rate?

The short answer is limited resources - there is never enough food, water, territory, breeding sites, nesting grounds, etc. for every individual animal to maximize its reproductive rate.


What prevent most organisms from increasing their number at their maximum possible rate?

The short answer is limited resources - there is never enough food, water, territory, breeding sites, nesting grounds, etc. for every individual animal to maximize its reproductive rate.


Why do you need to protect your species of organisms?

because if not resources can die of non water if animals dont have enough then we have nothing we need


For a particular species the carrying capacity is the maximum number of individual organisms that?

carrying capacity is standard in which the particular number of organisms can survive and get the enough food and nourishment required for them and can reproduce sufficiently


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 it called when a population stablilizes and consumes just enough resources to keep population steady?

exponential growth


When does exponential growth of population stop?

Exponential growth may occur in environments where there are few individuals and plentiful resources but when the number of individuals become large enough resources will be depleted slowing the growth in exponential growth.


Do bacteria decompose other bacteria?

Some bacteria will consume other bacteria, but in general, individual bacterium are simple enough organisms that they break down entirely on their own.


Eats other organism for food?

Any organism that eats another organism for food is called a heterotrophic animal. These organisms are also known as consumers.