Carrying Capacity and Human Growth.

Explain carrying capacity. 

• Carrying capacity is the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental decline. 

Infer the limiting factors to human population growth.

• The amount of resources available limits the amount of people that can live in an area, sicknesses also contribute to the rate at which population growth increases or decreases. In periods of epidemics, there are much lower percentages of population growth , or higher percentages in population decline. Another limiting factor would be the amount of space, there can only be a certain number of people in a given amount of space. If people can't spread out then they cannot reproduce. 

Summarize the impacts of a growing population on natural resources. 

• As the population increases there is more of a demand for natural resources, more need for food, water, and personal items. Carrying capacity and limiting factors all deal with the impacts of a growing population on natural resources, there are only a certain amount of people that can be in an area. An area can only have a certain amount of water and if everyone if drinking that water than it will be depleted, this can be shown in the game Celtic Village.