LC Higher Level Ecology

Question 1

Competition

Answer 1

When organisms actively struggle for a resource that is in short supply

Question 2

Specific types of competition

Answer 2

Intra-specifc competition

Inter-specific competion

Question 3

Intra-specific competition

Answer 3

Takes place between members of the same species

Question 4

Inter-specific competition

Answer 4

Takes place between members of different species

Question 5

Two main types of competition

Answer 5

Contest competition

Scramble competition

Question 6

Contest competition

Answer 6

An active physical contest between two individual organism which results in one winner and one loser

Question 7

Scramble competition

Answer 7

All of the competing individuals get some of the resources.

Question 8

Predation

Answer 8

The catching, killing and eating of an organism e.g hawk

Question 9

Parasitism

Answer 9

When two organisms of different species live in close association and one organism obtains its food from ,and to the disadvantage of the second organism

Question 10

Exoparasites

Answer 10

Parasites that lives on the outside of the host e.g flea

Question 11

Endoparasite

Answer 11

Parasite that lives inside the host e.g bacteria in human intestines

Question 12

Symbiosis

Answer 12

When two organisms of different species live in close association and at least one benefits

Question 13

Mutualism

Answer 13

When two organisms of different species live in close association and both benefit