Species Interactions MCS

What do we call a group of individuals of the same species?

• Crew

• Collection

• Community

• Population

Term to describe all the different organisms in a given area:

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Biome

Abiotic factors that affect living things include:

• Rainfall

• Sunlight

• Competition

• Commensalism

• Temperature

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Would you rather:

• Live for a week in Antarctica at a penguin colony

• Live for a week (safely) in the Serengeti observing lions.

A given ecosystem is defined by:

• The organisms that live in it

• The habitat

• Both the organisms and the habitat

• Solely the distance from the equator

How long is the cycle of snowshoe hare populations in the boreal forest of Canada and Alaska?

• 8 years

• 9 years

• 10 years

• 15 years

The snowshoe hare cycle is controlled by both food supplies and

• predation

• competition

• commensalism

• mutualism

Which of these would be considered competition?

• A bear and ravens fighting over a bison carcass

• A red spruce shading out a white pine; both are seeking light.

• Eaglets in a nest trying to grab the limited food the adult brings in.

• Two people going table to table in the Wallace asking for garlic bread, which is running out,

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If a bee can gather nectar from a plant, but also provides the service of pollination, we characterize this as:

• predation

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

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Herbivory has driven the evolution of

• thorns

• chemical defenses in plants

• the ability of predators to catch prey

• the ability of prey to escape predators