AP Environmental Science READING CHECK

Species A benefits and species B is harmed but not killed

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• predation

Species A benefits and species B is killed

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• predation

Species A and B both benefit

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• competition

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Species A benefits and species B is unaffected

• Mutualism

• Competition

• commensalism

• parasitism

What is symbiosis?

• any type of relationship or association between two organisms

• an example of mutualism

• any type of competition between organisms

• a close, long-term association between two species

An interaction between organisms that rely on the same resource is...

• competition

• ecosystem

• population

• resources

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Competition becomes more important as the availability or resources...

• decreases

• increases

• stays the same

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Competition becomes more important as the number of individuals...

• decreases

• increases

• stays the same

When two species in an area eat the same type of food but eat at different times of the day, their niches

• eliminate competition

• are examples of commensalism

• overlap

• are the same

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

the differentiation of niches that enables similar species to coexist in a community

• character displacement

• climax community

• resource partitioning

• pioneer species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2