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Case 1: Carrying Cap
Key vocabulary for the #1 case study- Carrying Capacity
Term | Definition |
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Carrying capacity | the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by a specific environment |
Abiotic | components or factors that are non-living; water, air, sunlight, temperature, rocks, etc |
Biotic | living things |
Limiting factors | factors that are capable of limiting a process, such as the growth, abundance, or distribution of a population of organisms in an ecosystem: such things as food, shelter, predators, disease, etc |
Competition | an interaction between organisms or species in which both require the same resource |
Producers | organisms that acquire their energy from sunlight and materials from nonliving sources |
Adaptation | a trait that improves an organism's ability to survive in its environment; trait can be structural, physiological or behavioral |