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AP Environmental Science Carrying Capacity

Practise carrying-capacity questions by reading K from logistic-growth graphs, identifying overshoot and linking population limits to resource depletion.

Syllabus
Effective Fall 2025
Course
AP Environmental Science

Exam points

  • identify the governing concept or relationship in the problem
  • justify the result with equations, diagrams or contextual evidence

ERT-3.D—Describe carrying capacity question 1

[Maximum number: 1]

In the graph below charting the growth of a population of organisms, the line labeled K represents the

Figure for Question ERT-3.D—Describe carrying capacity question 1 — AP Environmental Science
A

biotic potential of the organism

B

doubling time of the population in the environment

C

carrying capacity of the population

D

reproductive lag time of the organism

E

intrinsic rate of increase of the population in the environment

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