Question

During the industrial revolution, high population growth in great britain, combined with intensive use of raw materials from the environment, resulted in concerns about starvation and disease as the local population threatened to exceed the __________ of the local environment.

Answer 1

The answer in the space provided is carrying capacity as this is what is being threatened in the scenario above because the carrying capacity is a way of establish what the environment can hold or provide with a limited amount of people and when if there is a presence of population growth that is high, it could be threatened.