module 20 vocab

Question 1

what is community ecology?

Answer 1

it is the study of interactions among species

Question 2

What is a symbiotic relationship

Answer 2

the relationship between two speecies that live in close association with each other

Question 3

what is the competitive exclusion principle

Answer 3

The competitive illusion principles, the principle, stating that 2 species competing for the same limiting resource cannot coexist.

Question 4

what is resource partitioning

Answer 4

When 2 species divided resource based on their different behavior or morphology.

Question 5

define parasitoid

Answer 5

A specialized type of predator that lays eggs inside another organism referred to as a host

Question 6

Define.
Parisitism
Pathogen.
Herbivory

Answer 6

And interaction which one organism lives on in another organism, typically causing harm

A parasite that causes disease to its host

An interaction where an animal consumes a producer.

Question 7

what is an ecosystem engineer and a Keystone species and how are they tied together

Answer 7

A Keystone species is a species that is not very bonded but has large effects on a ecological system.
engineer species create and maintains habitat for other species.
Both severely impact the lives of multiple other organisms in an ecosystem and can do serious harm if removed