APES: Chapter 5 Review

Each of the following are ways in which predators capture prey except

• flying

• camouflage

• chemical warfare

• mimicry

The major threats to kelp forests include each of the following except

• sea urchins

• desalinization

• pollution

• global warming

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Which of the following is an example of parasitism?

• trout with blood-sucking sea lampreys

• clownfish and sea anemone

• oxpeckers and black rhinoceros

• birds resting in trees

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Which of the following best describes the importance of resource partitioning?

• it increases energy flow within an ecosystem

• it reduces niche overlap

• it helps to lower the population growth of a species

• it leads to a gradual succession of a habitat

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Most populations tend to live together in clumps or patches because of these reasons except

• they get protection from predators

• they have a better chance of finding resources

• they have a better change of obtaining a scarce resource

• they have opportunities to find mates

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Populations that have a high intrinsic rate of increase exhibit each of the following characteristics except

• they have short generation times

• they can reproduce many times

• they reproduce late in life

• they can have many offspring each time they reproduce

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Which of the following population patterns displays a crash of the population?

• stable

• irruptive

• boom and bust cycle

• irregular

The structure and species composition of communities and ecosystems change in response to changing environmental conditions through a process called

• ecological succession

• carrying capacity

• environmental resistance

• resilience

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Primary and secondary ecological succession can be interrupted by all of the following except

• fires

• hurricanes

• pollution cleanup

• deforestation

The ability of a living system to survive moderate disturbances is known as

• resilience

• sustainability

• inhibition

• inertia

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