3.1

Question 1

Community

Answer 1

All organisms that live together in a place

Question 2

Community Ecology

Answer 2

Study of interactions among population in an environment

Question 3

Niche

Answer 3

Abiotic and biotic resources that a species uses
What, where, when, and how they use them.

Question 4

Fundamental Niche

Answer 4

The potential use of resources

Question 5

Realized Niche

Answer 5

The resources a species actually uses

Question 6

Gause’s Competitive Exclusion Principle.

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What would happen if two species share the same niche

Answer 7

There would be competition for resources, one of the species are likely to go extinct.

Question 8

There are How Many Interspecific Interaction

Answer 8

6

Question 9

Competition

Answer 9

Both species are getting negative impacts.

Question 10

Mutualism

Answer 10

Both species are getting positive outcomes.

Question 11

Commensalism

Answer 11

One species is having positive outcomes while the other doesn’t receive either negative or positive.

Question 12

Predation/Herbivory/Parasitism

Answer 12

On species is getting a positive outcome while the other is getting negative.

Question 13

Barnacles growing on a whale and filter food from the water as the whale swims. They do not affect the whale. This is what type of interaction.

Answer 13

Commensalism

Question 14

Facultative

Answer 14

Receive benefits from but can survive without the other.
Ex: Bee & Flowers

Question 15

Obligatory

Answer 15

Species are entirely dependent on each other.
Ex: Fig wasp & Fig fruit

Question 16

Endosymbiosis

Answer 16

One or more species live inside another species - cells inside cells