Community Ecology

Question 1

Competition

Answer 1

The struggle of individuals to obtain a limiting resource

Question 2

Competitive Exclusion Principal

Answer 2

Two species competing for the same limiting resource cannot coexist

Question 2

Resource Partitioning

Answer 2

Two species divide a resource based on differences in the species behavior or morphology

Question 2

Temporal partitioning

Answer 2

Adopted by coexisting mammal species. When two different species split up when they hunt for food

Question 3

Spatial Partitioning

Answer 3

occurs if species differ in where they acquire resource

Question 4

Morphological partitioning

Answer 4

species lower competition by evolving different adaptations in body and shape

Question 5

Predation

Answer 5

The use of one species as a resource of another species

Question 6

True Predators

Answer 6

Kill prey and immediately consume it

Question 7

Herbivores

Answer 7

Consumes plants as prey
Typically do not kill the plant

Question 8

Symbiotic relationship

Answer 8

Live on or in the organism they consume the host rarely kill the host
Parasites that cause disease are called pathogens
Pathogens include viruses,bacteria,fungi,protist, and wormlike organisms called helminths

Question 9

Parasitoids

Answer 9

Lay eggs inside other organisms
Wasps and flies

Question 10

Mutualism

Answer 10

Both species benefit
Plants Pollinators
Acia trees and Ants

Question 11

Commensalism

Answer 11

One species benefits and the other is neither harmed or helped
Birds perching on trees
Fish using coral reefs in order to hide from predatoes