The ecological relationship that forms food webs.
What is predation (or predator-prey)
A community of plants and animals differentiated by abiotic factors such as climate.
What is a biome?
The relationship often shared by organisms that both require the same limited resource.
What is competition?
One of the two primary factors that differentiate terrestrial biomes.
What is temperature or precipitation?
This allows species that require the same resource to share equitably.
What is resource partitioning?
These interactions connect the organisms in a biome into a unified system.
What are ecological relationships?
When different species compete over the same resource.
Interspecific competition
The primary factor that differentiates aquatic biomes
What is salinity (or salt content)?
When members of the same species compete over a common resource.
What is intraspecific competition?
As bison walk through the grass, insects become active and are seen and eaten by cowbirds. This relationship neither harms nor benefits the bison.
What is a commensalistic relationship?
A chain reaction that occurs because a change in a predator population causes changes to prey populations.
What is a trophic cascade?
This specific relationship among offspring is most likely to limit the number of offspring in a generation that can survive to adulthood.
What is intraspecific competition over food?