Community Ecology Test Review

An event that changes a community by removing organisms from it or altering resource availability is called a __________.

• disturbance

• pioneer species

• endoparasite

• succession

What term is used to describe an animal that serves as the food source for another animal?

• prey

• predator

• carbivore

• ectoparasite

All of the living organisms (biotic) organisms interacting in a particular area is called a?

• community

• population

• biome

• species

The relationship between two different species in which one species captures, kills and consumes the members of the other species.

• predation

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

No two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time. This is known as?

• competitive exclusion principle

• competition

• character displacement

• resource partinioning

The gradual regrowth of an area following a disturbance.

• succession

• competition

• predation

• community

The struggle that occurs between organisms for the same limited resource is called? There is a winner and a loser.

• competition

• disturbance

• succession

• symbiosis

Anything required for life, such as food, water, sunlight, and space is call a __________?

• resource

• disturbance

• character displacement

• pioneer species

A close permanent relationship that exists between two different organisms.

• symbiosis

• prey

• competition

• community

A defense in which one organism resembles another organism that is dangerous or poisonous.

• mimicry

• camoflage

• succession

• competition