Ten fish were living well in a 10-gallon fish tank. When five fish were added to the other tank later, some fish began to die. Which explains this occurence?

The carrying capacity of a population's environment describes the maximum number of individuals the environment can support. The extra individuals can be exhaustive on the environment's resources such as oxygen, food and clean water.

Further Explanation:

An environment's biology includes both non-living, abiotic factors like atmosphere, water, soil, sunlight and temperature; and biotic factors which are living components of the ecosystem like plants, fungi, bacteria and animals. These factors interact within a community, and lead to a gradual change of an ecosystem over time.

The fish, are biotic components, capable of the mechanisms of growth, respiration, locomotion, excretion or reproduction that characterize living things.

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