Ch 4, 5 & 6 Communities, Populations, Biosphere Impact

A habitat is ___________________.

• the place or kind of place in which an animal or plant naturally lives.

• is how plants produce their own food.

• is an animal that only eats meat.

• the place where only one animal lives.

What is a niche?

• Where an organism lives.

• An organisms role, or job, within its habitat.

• What an organism eats.

• Knights who say funny words.

No two species can occupy the same niche, at the same place, and the same time.

• Competitive Exclusion Principle

• Limiting Exclusion Theory

• Competitive Limiting Principle

• Limiting Competitive Theory

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In this photo, two lions are fighting for a resource. What type of competition is this?

• Interspecific competition

• Intraspecific competition

• Machismo

• Competitive exclusion principle

Many different organisms are competing for the zebra as food. What type of competition is this?

• Intraspecific competition

• Interspecific competition

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This photo is showing the same ecosystem in two scenarios: one with the sea otter and one without the sea otter. What term best describes the sea otter?

• Niche

• Climax community

• Pioneer species

• Keystone species

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One organism hunts and eats another organism.

• predation

• mutualism

• carnivore

• parasitism

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The relationship between two different species living close together

• Biosphere

• Ecology

• Symbiosis

• Environment

What type of symbiosis?  Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers.  The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

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A tapeworm lives in the intestine of a cat absorbing nutrients through its skin. A tapeworm and a cat have this type of relationship.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• competition

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