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Communities
Chapter 6 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All of the living things within an area make up a _________________________________________. | community |
| What type of interaction takes place when multiple organisms need the same resource? | competition |
| The role that an organism plays in its environment (the resources it needs and how it gets those resources) is its ________________. | niche |
| What type of interaction takes place when one organism feeds on another? | predation |
| What type of interaction takes place when two organisms interact and at least one of them benefits from the relationship? | symbiosis |
| _____________________________ species are essential for survival of an entire ecosystem. | keystone |
| ___________________________________ is the variety of life forms within a community. | biodiversity |
| What process occurs in the building of an community after a volcano erupts? | primary succession |
| What type of interaction occurs as one species benefits from the relationship and the other is negatively affected? | parasitism |
| Competition is always a bad thing for a species. (True or False) | False |
| When two organisms of the same species need the same resource, ____________________________ occurs. | intraspecific competition |
| The first species to inhabit a community is known as the ______________________________ species. | pioneer |
| A ______________________________________________ occurs when the top predator in a food chain is removed, and the entire ecosystem is affected by it. | trophic cascade |
| What type of interaction occurs when two species live closely together and both benefit in some way from the interaction? | mutualism |
| What process occurs in the rebuilding of a community after a disturbance has occurred? | secondary succession |
| What type of interaction occurs when two organisms of different species are in need of the same resource? | interspecific competition |
| What type of interaction occurs when two species live closely together and one benefits from the interaction with the other, while the second is not affected? | commensalism |
| What is the name of a species that is not native to an area but is introduced by humans and creates competition for native species? | invasive |
| What states that no two species can occupy the exact same niche at the same time within a habitat? | competitive exclusion principle |
| A ______________________________ is the place that an organism lives. | habitat |
| _____________________________________ factors are all of the living things in an environment. | biotic |
| _____________________________________ factors are all of the nonliving things in an environment. | abiotic |
| An ______________________________________ is all of the living things within an environment, along with all of the physical characteristics. | ecosystem |
| Each ________________________________________ within a food chain has a distinct amount of energy that can be transferred to the next level. | trophic level |
| _________________________________ are organisms that make their own food energy. | producers |
| _________________________________ are organisms that eat something else for their food energy. | consumers |
| The number of unique species in a community is known as its ____________________________________. | species richness |
| The number of individuals present in each population relative to the total number of individuals in a community is known as its ________________________________________. | relative abundance |
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