Ev Sci Ch 5 Review

Interspecific competition is...

• Competition among different species

• Competition within the same species

• Predator Prey relationships

• Symbiosis

Species competing for similar resources evolving specialized traits that allow them to "share" that resource is known as...

• Resource Partitioning

• Predation

• Competition

• Commensalism

The hunter in predation is known as...

• Predator

• Prey

• Parasite

• Host

Changes in the gene pool of one species leading to changes in the gene pool of another species is known as...

• Coevolution

• Predation

• Partitioning

• Succession

Type of symbiosis where one organism lives on another at the host's expense (one benefits, one is harmed)

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Predation

Type of symbiosis where both species benefit...

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Predation

Gradual change in species composition in a given area...

• Ecological succession

• Inertia

• Resilience

• Coevolution

Primary succession...

• Establishment of a community in an area of exposed rock that does not have any topsoil.

• Fully mature and grown community

• Orderly and predictable change that takes place after a community of organisms has been removed but the soil has remained intact

• ability of an ecosystem to be restored through secondary ecological succession after a severe disturbance

True or false: Climax communities occur often

• True

• False

ability of an ecosystem to be restored through secondary ecological succession after a severe disturbance...

• Resilience

• Population

• Inertia

• Rangle of tolerance