Community Interactions

The concept of the zebra mussels trying to all use space on the shell is an example of:

• competition

• tolerance

• niche

• ecosystem

The _________ states that no two species can occupy exactly the same niche in exactly the same habitat at exactly the same time.

• theory of evolution

• law of conservation of energy

• competitive exclusion principle

• harmonious ecology principle

_________ can affect the size of prey populations in a community and determine the places prey can live and feed.

• Predators

• Ecosystems

• Omnivores

• Parasites

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_______ can affect both the size and distribution of plant populations in a community and determine the places that certain plants can survive and grow.

• Predators

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

• Herbivores

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the differentiation of niches that enables similar species to coexist in a community

• character displacement

• climax community

• resource partitioning

• pioneer species

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Any relationship in which two species live closely together is called ________, which means “living together.”

• mutualism

• commensalism

• symbiosis

• predation

This kind of relationship between species in which both benefit is known as __________.

• predation

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

The relationship between the hummingbird moth and the flower is:

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• predation

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This mosquito is demonstrating what type of feeding strategy?

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

• predation

The spider and web in the antlers is an example of ______________, a relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• herbivory

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