ECOLOGY STUDY EXAM WITH CORRECT ANSWERS { GRADED A+}

ECOLOGY STUDY EXAM WITH

CORRECT ANSWERS { GRADED A+}




Interspecific interactions - ✔✔relationships between species in a

community

intraspecific competition - ✔✔competition between members of

the same species

interspecific competition - ✔✔competition between members of

different species

Ecological niche - ✔✔the sum of a species' use of the biotic and

abiotic resources in its environment/role or job of a species

Predation - ✔✔One species kills and eats another

Herbivory - ✔✔An animal consumes plant parts or algae

Mutualism - ✔✔both populations benefit

, Parasitism - ✔✔The host plants or animals are victimized by

parasites or pathogens

Commensalism - ✔✔one organism benefits and the other is

unaffected

Trophic structure - ✔✔a pattern of feeding relationships

consisting of several different levels

Food chain - ✔✔the sequence of food transfer up the trophic

levels

Autotroph - ✔✔makes its own food

Heterotroph - ✔✔consumer

Secondary consumers - ✔✔typically eat herbivores

Primary consumers - ✔✔herbivores

Tertiary consumers - ✔✔eat secondary consumers

Quaternary consumers - ✔✔eat tertiary consumers

Detritivores - ✔✔Organisms that eat dead organic matter