EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Resources such as food, water, light, space, shelter and access to mates are all limiting factors. If an organism, group or population does not have enough resources to sustain it, individuals will die through starvation, desiccation and stress, or they will fail to produce offspring.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Examples of limiting factors that could limit the size of a population are food, nutrients, shelter, and mate. These resources are limited in the ecosystem, and as a result, they could drive living things to compete for them.

Detailed explanation-5: -These can be single elements or a group of related ones. water act as a limiting factor in ecosystems as all plants does not have adaptations to survive in arid climates and desert biomes.