Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth 10th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 21

Distinguish among the biotic potential, intrinsic rate of increase, environmental resistance, carrying capacity, exponential growth, and logistic growth of a population, and use these concepts to explain why there are always limits to population growth in nature. Define population crash and explain how it can occur. Explain why humans are not exempt from nature's population controls.