Community Interactions

An animal that is hunted and eaten for food is a 

• predator
• prey

When a pine tree grows real tall and blocks sunlight to another pine tree it is _______ competition.

• Interference
• Intraspecific
• Interspecific
• Exploitative

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The term ______ refers to any necessity of life (water, nutrients, light, food, or space).

• niche
• resource
• ecosystem
• tolerance

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Birds on Christmas Island all live in the same habitat but they prey on fish of different sizes and feed in different places.
Thus, each species occupies a distinct (different) ____________.

• community
• niche
• resource
• population

An interaction in which one animal captures and feeds on another animal is called _________.

• speciation

• herbivory

• predation

• omnivory

What are three types of symbiotic relationships?

• predation, herbivory, and parasitism
• mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism
  
• symbiosis, predation, mututalism
• commensalism, predation, mututalism

Any relationship in which two species live closely together is called ________, which means “living together.”

• mutualism
• commensalism
• symbiosis
• predation

This mosquito is demonstrating what type of feeding strategy?

• parasitism
• commensalism
• mutualism
• predation

The spider and web in the antlers is an example of ______________, a relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• herbivory

Which symbols best describe mutualism?

+ is benefit

-- is harm

o is neutral

• +,+

• +,-

• +,0

• -,0