Question

What is likely to happen to a healthy population that is experiencing exponential growth?
It will eventually reach its carrying capacity.
It will experience a population crash.
It will go extinct in the near future.
It will continue to grow exponentially indefinitely.

Answer 1

It will eventually reach its carrying capacity. Exponential growth only occurs while resources are effectively unlimited; density‑dependent limits (food, space, disease, predation) slow growth and lead to logistic growth toward a carrying capacity (though overshoots/declines can occur).