Niches
What is two organisms occupy the same niche
This is a relationship in which one organism lives inside or on another organism and harms it, but does not kill their host
What is parasitism?
This relationship occurs when a herbivore eats a producer
What is herbivory?
This succession occurs when plants have already been established
What is a secondary succession
Botany is the study of what
What are plants?
This is what happens when more than one organisms occupies a niche
What is competition
This is a relationship between two organisms in which both species benefit from each other
What is mutualism
This relationship occurs when a buffalo moves through the grass forcing insects to move which then get eaten by birds (the buffalo is unaffected but the birds benefit)
What is commensalism?
This is a series of predictable changes that occurs in a community over time
What is an ecological succession?
This is the color of polar bears skin
What is black?
This is the range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which it uses those conditions
What is niche?
This relations affects both the size and distribution of plant populations, but also determines the places that certain plants can survive and grow
What is herbivory?
Lice and tapeworms are these
What is a parasite?
This is a non-native species that causes harm to the environment, economy, or human, animal, or plant health
What is an invasive species?
This organisms heart weighs as much as a car.
What is a blue whale?
This is what happens to the population when the availability of resources decreases
What is the population size will decrease?
This is when a relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
What is commensalism?
The relationship between a clown fish and sea anemones (nemo anyone? )
What is mutualism?
This is why secondary succession are important
What is they clean out the bottoms of the forests that have been overgrown and bring nutrients to the soil?
This is how many bones that make up a turtle's shell
What is 50?
This is the number of organisms that make up a niche in an ecosystem
What is one?
This relationship allows the flow of energy through an ecosystem to happen
What is predation?
When barnacles attach to whales but neither benefit from or harm the whale but the barnacles benefit from the constant movement of water
What is commensalism?
This is the resource that organisms of the same niche compete for can become scarce
What is a limiting factor?
A pumpkin is a type of gourd, but it's also a type of _____________
What is a berry?