Higher Level Ecology

Question 1

What is competition?

Answer 1

Competition occurs when organisms actively struggle for a resource that is in short supply

Question 2

What is intra-specific competition?

Answer 2

Intra-specific competition takes place between members of the same species

Question 3

What is inter-specific competition?

Answer 3

Inter-specific competition occurs between members of different species

Question 4

What is contest competition?

Answer 4

In contest competition, there is an active physical contest between two individual organisms

Question 5

What is scramble competition?

Answer 5

In scramble competition, all of the competing individuals get some of the resource

Question 6

What is predation?

Answer 6

Predation is the catching, killing and eating of another organisms

Question 7

What is a predator?

Answer 7

A predator is an organism that catches, kills and eats another organism

Question 8

What is prey?

Answer 8

The prey is the organism that is eaten by the predator

Question 9

What is parasitism?

Answer 9

Parasitism occurs when two organisms of different species live in close association and one organism (the parasite) obtains its food from, and to the disadvantage of, the second organism (the host)

Question 10

Symbiosis?

Answer 10

Symbiosis occurs when two organisms of different species live (and have to live) in close association and at least one of them benefits