10.1 Study Guide

Question 1

Community

Answer 1

-all the organisms that live together in a place.

Question 2

Community Ecology

Question 3

Niche

Answer 3

-Biotic and abiotic resources that a species uses:
-what, where, when, and how it uses them

Question 4

Niche partitioning

Answer 4

occurs when niche overlap becomes costly

Question 5

Gause’s competitive exclusion principle

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Interspecific interactions

Answer 6

types:
competition, mutualism, commenalism, predation/herbivory/paratism

Question 7

competition

Answer 7

(-/-)

Question 8

mutualism

Answer 8

(+/+)

Question 9

commensalism

Answer 9

(+/0)

Question 10

predation/herbivory/paratism

Answer 10

(-/+)

Question 11

+

Answer 11

benefit to the species

Question 12

0

Answer 12

no positive or negative effect

Question 13

-

Answer 13

an undesirable effect of the interaction

Question 14

endosymbiosis

Answer 14

-one or more species lives inside another species- cells inside cells.

Question 15

symbiosis

Answer 15

-two or more species share a close physical interaction.

Question 16

non-symbiosis

Answer 16

-interaction of organisms that live apart from each other.

Question 17

coevolution in community

Answer 17

Long term evolutionary adjustments between species.

Question 18

examples of coevolution

Answer 18

-Flowers & pollinators
-Predator-prey relationships
-Parasite-host relationships

Question 19

predators adaptations

Answer 19

-locate and subdue prey