Chapter 2

Question 1

what is a population

Answer 1

number of individuals of the same species

Question 2

what is a community

Answer 2

number of all populations in a region

Question 3

what is an ecosystem

Answer 3

living and dead species in a region

Question 4

what is a niche

Answer 4

the role and habitat of an organism

Question 5

what is competition

Answer 5

the subdivision of resources that species fight for (strongest gets more resources and reproduces and creates a stronger line of kids, losers either die, adapt or move)

Question 6

Competition interspecifiques

Answer 6

Competition with numerous species (coyote and wolf)

Question 7

competition intraspecifiques

Answer 7

competition within a species (canola)

Question 8

will there be more diversity close, or farther away from equator

Answer 8

closer, because of the consistency in habitat

Question 9

what is a niche etendue

Answer 9

a bigger environement with species who are able to adapt easier, bigger populations and less species, more competition, generalistes

Question 10

what is a niche restreintes

Answer 10

a smaller environnement with a species who isn’t able to adapt easy and is a dependant on the consistency of an environement, more biodiversity and species, less populations, less competition, specialisted

Question 11

what is specialisation

Answer 11

is dependant on a specifique environnement to survive and if something happens to it, it will have a hard time adapting

Question 12

three types of symbiosis?

Answer 12

Commenalisme: one benefits, one doesn’t impact paratisme: one benefits, one hurts Mutualisme: Both benefit