AP Biology Community Ecology

The two species, Paramecium aurelia and Paramecium caudatum, which do not prey upon each other, fighting to grow in the same test tube is an example of which of the following?

• Competition

• Predation

• Emigration

• Immigration

Refer to the diagram of the survivorship curve.
Which curve best describes an organism that invests a lot of energy in parenting?

• A

• B

• C

• this is not a survivorship curve

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Which of the following encompasses all the others?

• ecosystem

• community

• population

• individual

__________ primary productivity is the total amount of energy that producers convert to chemical energy in organic molecules per unit of time.   

• Net

• Total

• Gross

• None of the above

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__________productivity = the organic materials that remain after photosynthetic organisms in the ecosystem have used some of these compounds for their cellular energy needs (cellular respiration).

• Gross

• Primary

• Net

• Secondary

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Frogs lay ~4000 eggs at a time. Based on this frogs would be classified as -

• R-strategists

• K-strategists

states that two species cannot exist together if they compete for the same resources. One will either die out or migrate, or they will adapt to separate resources.

• Hardy-Weinberg Principle

• Limiting Nutrient Principle

• Competitive Exclusion Principle

• Tolerance Principle

The tape worm gets a place to live in the intestines of the human and food from the human. The human loses weight and nutrients from the tape worm.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

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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Which statement best describes the relationship between species A and B?

• Species A is the prey of Species B

• Species A is a parasite of Species B

• Species A is a consumer and B is a producer

• Species A and B has a mutualistic relationship

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