3.1 Study Guide

Question 1

What is the defination of commensalism?

Answer 1

It is an interaction in which one species benefits and the other species is not particularly affected. It can be hard to define a commensalism, because interactions tend to affect the species involved, and any effect will shift a commensalism into a mutualism or a predation-type interaction.

Question 2

What is niche mean?

Answer 2

It means that biotic and abiotic resources that species uses where, when, and how it uses them.

Question 3

True or False: Falcutative means to recieve benefits from but can survive without eachother.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What does herbivory, parasitism, and predition all have in common.

Answer 4

All these types of interactions consists of an organism causing harm to another organsim while still benefitting.

Question 5

What is the difference betwenn fundamental and realized niche?

Answer 5

The difference is that fundamental is the potential are where species can live while realized is the only specific are where species live.

Question 6

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

Answer 6

If niches overlap a lot there would be more violent ineractions between organism and if the just don’t overlap a lot then there just be not as much conflictual intereaction between organisms.

Question 7

If a bee pollinates a flower and also get its food from it what type of interaction is it?

Answer 7

It is mutualism non-symbiotic.