CarryingCapacity

=////Carrying Capacity...////= (Biology Book: Unit 2, Chapter 5, Page 122)


 * __Defintion__**- the largest number of individuals a given environment can support.


 * __The Graph__-** if you notice right after the population shoots up it decreases. This is because when it goes over or **//overshoots//** the resources run out in the environment, so the population decreases until the resourses are replentish, then it repeats this cycle.

The spill out represents the lives loss to over population with few resources left.
 * __The Picture__-** represents an overloaded environment.


 * __Test Yourself__-** Exlpian how the blue line inthe graph is similar to the barrel.(answer below)

and the tip of the barrel is the maxium capacity it can hold.
 * The blue line is the maxium capacity that environment can carry