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2.Examples of density dependent factors are food, shelter, predation, competition, and diseases while examples of density independent factors are natural calamities like floods, fires, tornados, droughts, extreme temperatures, and the disturbance of the habitat of living organisms.
Population regulation: any density-dependent process that causes a population to move toward the present value of K. Density-dependent factors (intra- and interspecific competition, predation, disease, parasitism) that cause a population to move toward the present value of K are sometimes termed regulating factors.