8.4 Human Population Carrying Capacity

Significant Ideas:

• Human carrying capacity is difficult to quantify.

• The EF is a model that makes it possible to determine whether human populations are living within carrying capacity.

Applications & Skills:

• Evaluate an example of how renewable and nonrenewable natural capital has been mismanaged.

• Compare and contrast the differences in the EF of two countries.

• Evaluate how EVSs impact the EFs of individuals or populations.