OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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Question
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The availability to food, water, shelter and space
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The number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container
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The highest possible vital index of a species
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None of the above
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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: -Space, food, oxygen, and water are limiting factors. Temperature and precipitation determine the climate of an ecosystem, which impacts the organisms that can live in an ecosystem. An ecosystem can support only so large of a population.
Detailed explanation-3: -Limiting factors of an ecosystem include disease, severe climate and weather changes, predator-prey relationships, commercial development, environmental pollution and more.