3.1

Question 1

What is Community?

Answer 1

All the organisms that live together in a place.

Question 2

What is Community Ecology?

Answer 2

The study of interactions among all populations in an environment.

Question 3

Biotic and abiotic niches are…

Answer 3

resources that a species uses.

Question 4

A species Niche is what, where, when, and how there…

Answer 4

resources.

Question 5

Species with low fitness, when overlapping, do what?

Answer 5

fight

Question 6

Gause’s Competitive Exclusion Principle?

Answer 6

No two similar species can occupy the same niche at the same time.

Question 7

Types of interspecific interactions.

Answer 7

Competition, mutualism, commercialism, predation/ herbivory, parasitism.

Question 8

Name the type of Interspecific Interaction: (-/-)

Answer 8

Competition

Question 9

Name the type of Interspecific Interaction: (+/+)

Answer 9

Mutualism

Question 10

Name the type of Interspecific Interaction: (+/0)

Answer 10

Commensalism

Question 11

Name the type of Interspecific Interaction: (-/+)

Answer 11

Predation/ herbivory/ parasitism

Question 12

What is the difference between predation and parasitism?

Answer 12

One is short term, the other is long term. They both negatively impact the subject of the predation and parasitism