3.1 Community Ecology

Question 1

What does community mean

Answer 1

all the organism that live together

Question 2

What is niche

Answer 2

biotic and abiotic resources that species use

Question 3

What is the difference between fundamental niche and potential niche

Answer 3

fundamental niche is what is predicted to happen and realized niche is what actually happened

Question 4

What is Niche partitioning

Answer 4

when the niche overlap become costly to the species

Question 5

what does Gause’s competitive exclusion principle say

Answer 5

it says that to species can not occupy the same niche at the same time

Question 6

What are the four interspecific interaction

Answer 6

parasitism/herbivory/predation, commensalism, mutualism, and competition

Question 7

What is the difference between endosymbiosis, symbiosis, and non-symbiosis

Answer 7

endosymbiosis is one or more species live together, symbiosis is two or more species share a close interaction, and non-symbiosis is no interaction

Question 8

What does it mean if two species are obligatory

Answer 8

they are dependent on each other fully

Question 9

do fig wasps and fig trees have a facultative or obligatory relationship

Answer 9

obligatory

Question 10

what does coevolution community mean

Answer 10

long term evolutionary adjustments between species