Symbiosis
Ticks on a dog are an example of this type of relationship.
What is parasitism?
Food, Water and sunlight are examples of these.
What are limiting factors?
Succession continues until it reaches this type of community.
What is a climax community?
In this relationship, the predator hunts the prey for food.
What is predator-prey relationship?
Existence of predators is an example of limiting...
What are factors?
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not harmed or benefited in any way.
What is commensalism?
The largest number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support over time.
What is carrying capacity?
Runoff fertilizer and livestock waste from farms can add this to a pond.
If a buzzard and a coyote both need the meat from a dead animal, there is this for that food source.
What is competition?
All the populations in a given area.
What is a community?
Honey guide birds alert and direct badgers to bee hives. The badgers then expose the hives and feed on the honey first. Next the honey guide birds eat. This would be what type of symbiosis.
What is mutualism?
A population cannot exceed this, which is the largest number of individuals that an ecosystem can support.
What is carrying capacity?
A community that is a stable community that no longer goes through major ecological change.
What is a climax community?
What is competitition?
All the organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
Barnacles create a home site by attaching themselves to whales. This is an example of this type of symbiosis.
What is commensalism?
Disappearance of a competing species increases or decreases the carrying capacity for that particular species.
What is increase?
As plants in an area undergoing ecological succession die, they can be ______ by plants of the same or different species.
What is replaced?
Trees compete for this with other trees and plants.
What is sunlight?
All the living and nonliving things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
A close long term relationship between two species that usually involves the exchange of food or energy.
What is symbiosis?
When populations continue to decrease until they disappear is known as this.
What is extinction?
The process of one ecological community gradually changing into another.
What is ecological succession?
This type of relationship helps prey relationships from growing too large for the carrying capacity of the ecosystem.
What is predator-prey relationship?
When a species lives outside of its natural range and can cause damage or harm to that ecosystem, it is considered this.
What is an invasive species? (or nonnative species)