Question: Increased populations can lead to the depletion of locally available resources. Compared to other communities, which of these locally available resources is most likely to be depleted in desert communities?
Answer: water
Hypothesis: increased populations are likely to cause water to be depleted in a desert environment
Supporting facts: sent1: a desert is a kind of land feature sent2: a desert is formed by desertification sent3: a supply of something is a source of that something sent4: as the available water in an environment increases , the populations of organisms in that environment will increase sent5: if a resource is low in availability then it is more likely to be depleted sent6: water is a kind of natural resource sent7: as a population of organisms increases , the resources used by those organisms will decrease sent8: a lack of something that a living thing requires prevents the survival of that living thing sent9: loss of resources has a negative impact on the organisms in an area sent10: amount is similar to abundance sent11: if the amount of something decreases then that something might be depleted sent12: living thing is a kind of organism sent13: drinking is a kind of water use sent14: a desert environment is low in availability of water / availability of food sent15: as the supply of food in an environment decreases , the population of animals in that environment will decrease sent16: requiring something means needing that something sent17: living things require water for survival sent18: the amount of something is similar to the availability of something sent19: using less of a resource increases the availability of that resource sent20: if a resource is not replaced then the resource has low availability sent21: when available resources decrease in an environment , organisms have to conserve those resources sent22: population is a measure of the number of a species in an environment sent23: as available water in an environment decreases , the amount of available food in that environment will decrease sent24: to depend on / to rely on / to need means to require sent25: a nonrenewable resource is limited in supply
Reasoning: [BECAUSE] living thing is a kind of organism [AND] as a population of organisms increases , the resources used by those organisms will decrease [INFER] int1: as a population of living things increases, the resources used by those living things will decrease [BECAUSE] int1 [AND] living things require water for survival [AND] water is a kind of natural resource [INFER] int2: as a population of living things increases, the water used by those living things will decrease [BECAUSE] int2 [AND] if the amount of something decreases then that something might be depleted [INFER] int3: as a population of a living thing increases the water used by those living things might be depleted [BECAUSE] a desert environment is low in availability of water / availability of food [AND] if a resource is low in availability then it is more likely to be depleted [INFER] int4: water is more likely to be depleted in a desert environment [BECAUSE] int3 [AND] int4 [INFER] int5: increased populations are likely to cause water to be depleted in a desert environment