Chapter 14 Biology

All of the environmental features in the area where an organism lives are known as its

• niche

• habitat

• community

• behavior

The lion’s ecological niche includes its behavior and

• the shade trees on the savanna.

• its position in the food web.

• an ecological equivalent.

• all the nearby watering holes.

The idea that two species cannot occupy the same niche is known as

• ecological equivalence

• niche partitioning.

• evolutionary response.

• competitive exclusion.

When two species compete for the same resources, their ecological niche may

• become extinct.

• adapt to one species.

• not favor one of them.

• split into two niches.

Ecological equivalents are species that occupy similar niches

• in different geographical regions.

• with plenty of food

• in different types of habitats

• after niche partitioning.

Two robins eating worms on the same lawn is an example of

• mutualism.

• commensalism.

• competition

• parasitism.

Predation is best described as

• one organism capturing and eating another.

• two organisms competing for limited resources

• an interaction in which two species benefit from each other.

• . an interaction in which one species benefits and other is not affected.

Aphids eat the sap from plants and excrete sticky waste that ants eat. The ants protect the aphids from predators. This type of interaction is called

• parasitism

• mutualism.

• commensalism

• competition.

An oak tree provides a sparrow a place to build a nest. The nest neither benefits nor harms the tree. What is the name for this type of relationship?

• mutualism

• commensalism

• predation

• parasitism

One difference between parasitism and predation is that parasites

• do very little harm to their hosts.

• keep their hosts alive for a period of time.

• attack the host only from the inside.

• are not very big.