Unit 2 Review: Ecology (Biology)

An organism's ____ describes its "job" in its ecosystem such as how it gets food or interacts with other living things.

• Habitat

• Niche

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Species that are _____ can use many different types of resources in their ecosystems.

• Generalists

• Specialists

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Typically, species that are ____ have a tougher time responding to and surviving changes in their ecosystems.

• Generalists

• Specialists

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According to the _____, two species occupying the same niche cannot equally survive -- one will survive better than the other.

• Competitive exclusion principle

• Logistic population growth

• Pyramid of energy

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When a population growths without limits, it experiences _____.

• Exponential growth

• Logistic growth

During the ____ of population growth, the population barely increases in size.

• Lag phase

• Exponential phase

• Overshoot

• Equilibrium phase

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During the ____ of population growth, the population size temporarily exceeds its carrying capacity.

• Lag phase

• Exponential phase

• Overshoot

• Equilibrium phase

Populations following logistic growth stabilize near a certain value based on the available resources in their ecosystem. This is known as the ____.

• Logistic value

• Carrying capacity

• Die off size

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_____ limiting factors (like competition or predators) increase in effect as the population density increases.

• Density-dependent

• Density-independent

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_____ occurs between two species (or individuals of the same species) as they work against each other to access resources in their environment

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Competition

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