Community Interactions

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What is the term for a relationship where one organism eats another?

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Predation

Front

What type of competition occurs between members of the same species?

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Intraspecific competition

Front

What is the term for a relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another?

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Parasitism

Front

True or False: Members of the same species will tend to compete over resources rather than divide them.

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False, they tend to divide resources.

Front

What is the term for a mutually beneficial relationship between two different species?

Back

Mutualism

Front

What is the term for competition between different species?

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Interspecific competition

Front

Give an example of predation in nature.

Back

A lion eating a zebra.

Front

What is an example of parasitism?

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A tick living on the body of a deer.

Front

What is the relationship called when two species benefit from each other?

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Mutualism.

Front

What is the ecological term for the role an organism plays in its environment?

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