Conditions in the environment that put limits on where an organism can live are called:

• A. Biotic Factors
• B. Abiotic Factors
• C. Limiting Factors
• D. Climate

Answer: (C)

Limiting factors are environmental conditions that prevent an organism from surviving, reproducing, or thriving in certain places. They cap where a species can live by restricting its distribution and population size. These factors can be abiotic (like extreme temperatures, drought, salinity, or nutrient limits) or biotic (like intense competition or predation), but the key idea is that they set the boundaries of where a species can exist.

Biotic and abiotic factors describe broad categories of influences, not the specific constraint on geographic range. Climate refers to long-term patterns of temperature, precipitation, and other atmospheric conditions, and while it affects where organisms can occur, it’s a part of abiotic context rather than the label for the limiting constraint itself. So the term that best captures “conditions that put limits on where an organism can live” is limiting factors.