3.1

Question 1

What is a Niche?

Answer 1

Biotic and abiotic resource that a species uses.

Question 2

Realized niche vs. Fundamental niche

Answer 2

Fundamental niche is the area of space that a spieces could use live, eat, and reproduce
Realized niche is the area of space that a spieces could use live, eat, and reproduce including interaction with other species.

Question 3

Mutualism

Answer 3

Both speices benefit.

Question 4

Commensalism

Answer 4

One spieces benefit while the other spieces do not benefit or harmed.

Question 5

Parasitism

Answer 5

One spieces benfit at the expences of the other.

Question 6

Predation

Answer 6

Prey of one animal to another.

Question 7

Herbivory

Answer 7

Consumption of plant material by animals.

Question 8

Facultative vs. obligatory

Answer 8

Facultative recieve benefits from but can survive without.
Obligatory is species that depend on each other.

Question 9

What is likely to happen if the niches of two species overlap a little? Overlap a lot?

Answer 9

A little the species will fight for it and eventually aviod that area.
A lot with cause one species to go.

Question 10

How can niche partitioning increase the biodiversity of a community? What are some ways that species can partition their niches?

Answer 10

It allows species to acess the limit resourse.
Food and area of the enviroment.

Question 11

Compare and contrast different interspecies interactions, give examples of each type

Answer 11

Competition -/-
Predation +/-
Mutualsim +/+
Commensalism +/0
Parasitism +/-