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B- Unit 3 Lesson 8
Affecting Carrying Capacity
Term | Definition |
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carrying capacity | the maximum number of individuals of a particular species that an ecosystem can support at a given time |
community | all members of all species in a given area |
direct competition | two or more species that require the same resources and need to complete for them |
ecosystem | all the organisms in a given area along with the nonliving things with which they interact |
population | all members of a species in a given area at a given time |
biotic | any living or once-living in an ecosystem |
abiotic | elements in an ecosystem that have never been alive |
factor of scale | the size of the ecosystem will have an impact on how much the abiotic or biotic factor influences the carrying capacity; the smaller the ecosystem, the more dramatic a factor can influence the carrying capacity |
multiplier | a factor that causes changes in many other related variables within an ecosystem |