Biology Deck 6 - competition

Question 1

niche

Answer 1

the set of conditions and resources that a species requires in order to survive and reproduce

Question 2

habitat

Answer 2

area with resources required by a species (cannot change suddenly)

Question 3

limiting factor

Answer 3

resources are environmental conditions that limit the growth, abundance of distribution of an organism or a population in an ecosystem

Question 4

competitive exclusion

Answer 4

two species with similar niches, coexist in the same ecosystem, then one will be excluded from the community due to intense competition, remaining population will be at a lower level with competition

Question 5

intraspecific competition

Answer 5

between members of the same species

Question 6

interspecific competition

Answer 6

between members in differing species

Question 7

inerference competition

Answer 7

direct interactions between competitors

Question 8

exploitative

Answer 8

one organism consumers a resource needed by another

Question 9

resource partitioning

Answer 9

use limited resources different ways

Question 10

competitive release

Answer 10

1 competing species disappears, leaving resources to the other

Question 11

character displacement

Answer 11

physiological different among similar species whose distributions overlap geographically

Question 12

dominance hierarchies

Answer 12

in intraspective completion aggression / completion is reduced by dominance hierarchies

Question 13

keystone species

Answer 13

species in which another species in an ecosystem largely depend, if removed the ecosystem would change

Question 14

primary succession

Answer 14

community colonizes rock

Question 15

secondary succession

Answer 15

community colonizes previoiusly distrubed ground (field)