Chapter 4 Species Interactions

Which of the following species interactions is represented by one species eating another?

• Predation

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

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What type of species interactions occurs when one species benefits and the other is harmed?

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Competition

What type of species interactions occurs when one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefited?

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Competition

What type of species interactions occurs when both species benefit?

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Competition

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True or false: herbivories are predators

• True

• False

This is one way organisms can avoid competition by using different parts of the same resource

• Resource partitioning

• Symbiosis

• Parasitism

• Carrying capacity

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What is a special relationship between species?

• Resource partitioning

• Symbiosis

• Parasitism

• Carrying capacity

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In which type of interaction does one animal eat another for energy and nutrients?

• Competition

• Parasitism

• Predation

• Mutualism

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Hermit crabs live in shells made and then abandoned by snails. This relationship neither helps nor harms the snails. Which interaction is this?

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Competition

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Ostriches and Gazelles feed next to each other. They both watch for predators and alert each other to danger. Since the visual abilities of the two species are different, they can each identify threats the other animal would not as readily see. What type of interaction is this?

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Competition

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