Community ecology

Multiple Choice

All the populations of all the different species that live together in a particular area is a

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Organism

• Biome

Multiple Choice

The ecological role or "way of life," (what it eats, when it eats, behavior, where it lives, etc. is an organisms?

• community

• population

• niche

• biome

Multiple Choice

According to the competitive exclusion principle, two species cannot continue to occupy the same:

• Habitat
• Niche
• Territory
• Range

Multiple Choice

Resource partitioning is best described by which of the following statements?

• Competitive exclusion results in the success of the superior species.
• Slight variation in niche allows closely related species to coexist.
• Two species can coevolve and share the same niche.
• Species diversity is maintained by switching between prey species.

Multiple Choice

Competition between members of different species

• Intraspecific
• Interspecific
• Primary
• Secondary

Multiple Choice

Why don't parasites kill their hosts?

• It makes the parasite sick
• They don't
• The parasite would die
• The parasite gets full

Multiple Choice

An animal with bright coloration is likely to be:

• A predator

• Poisonous

• A competitor

• A prey organism

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Multiple Choice

What is the definition of behavior

• animal's response to a stimulus
• animal's type of communication
• animal's care of offspring
• animal's main characterisitics

Multiple Choice

This type of innate behavior occurs when an animal carries out a specific set of actions, in sequence, in response to a stimulus.

• imprinting

• habituation

• fixed action pattern

• classical conditioning

Multiple Choice

Which animal displays migratory behavior?

• geese 
• moose
• deer
• wild hog 

Multiple Choice

A bark, snort, growl, and hoot are all examples of what type of communication 

• non-verbal communication
• verbal communication
• short distance communication
• aggressive communication 

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of COURTSHIP behavior?

• growling at foe
• barking for attention
• nursing young
• showing bright feathers