Question

How does competition affect population size? Use the terms carrying capacity and limiting factor with your example.

Answer 1

they can eat all of the food and kill off the population

Step-by-step explanation:

if the competition eats all of the food there's no food for the population and they will die off.

Answer 2

Limiting factors are resources or other factors in the environment that can lower the population growth rate. Competition for resources like food and space cause the growth rate to stop increasing, so the population levels off. This flat upper line on a growth curve is the carrying capacity.