Biology 2010 Student Edition

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ISBN 10: 9780133669510
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Chapter 5, Populations - Assessment - 5.1 How Populations Grow - Understand Key Concepts/Think Critically - Page 148: 10

Answer

Like a road, an ecosystem has limited resources that can only sustain a certain number of organisms. If there is an overpopulation, the ecosystem gets congested and the food supplies and space will run out. As a result, there will be competition among the organisms and only the stronger species will survive.

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I used the explanation of carrying capacity from the lesson, and the knowledge from the lesson
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