Community Interactions

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What is parasitism?

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A relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another, such as a tapeworm living in a person's intestines.

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True or False: Members of the same species will tend to divide resources instead of competing over them.

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True

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What makes up an ecosystem?

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Both living and nonliving things interacting within a defined area.

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What is an example of a biotic factor?

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Leaves.

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True or False: Competition between members of the same species is known as interspecific competition.

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False, it is known as intraspecific competition.

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Define community in ecological terms.

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A group of different species living together in a defined area.

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What is mutualism?

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A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit, such as bees pollinating flowers.

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What is commensalism?

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A relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed, such as barnacles on a whale.

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What is competition in ecology?

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The struggle between organisms for the same resources in an ecosystem.

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Define population in ecological terms.

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A group of individuals of the same species living in a specific area.