Limiting Factors
vocabulary
100

food, water, living space, disease, predation, and natural disasters.

What is Limiting Factors?

100

Being beyond the maximum capacity

What is Overcapacity?

200
These limiting factors affect populations regardless of their size. Examples include natural disasters, pollution, and extreme weather events. 



What is Density-Independent?

200

The movement of individuals out of an area

What is Emigration?

300

These limiting factors have a greater impact as the population size increases. Examples include competition, predation, and disease. 

What is Density Dependent?

300

The movement of individuals into an area

What is Immigration?

400

These are non-living components of the environment

What is Abiotic Factors?
400

Any environmental factor that restricts population growth, such as food, water, or competition

What is Limiting Factors?

500

These are living components of the environment

What are Biotic Factors?

500

The Max amount of organisms in a area

What is carrying capacity?