AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Some examples of limiting factors are biotic, like food, mates, and competition with other organisms for resources. Others are abiotic, like space, temperature, altitude, and amount of sunlight available in an environment. Limiting factors are usually expressed as a lack of a particular resource.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the natural world, limiting factors like the availability of food, water, shelter and space can change animal and plant populations. Other limiting factors, like competition for resources, predation and disease can also impact populations.

Detailed explanation-3: -They are (1) keystone species, (2) predators, (3) energy, (4) available space, and (5) food supply.

Detailed explanation-4: -Limiting factors are things that can limit the size of a population such as food, water, shelter, disease, nesting sites, predation, and parasitism.