What am I?
Internal parasite.
What is an endoparasite?
All of the living organisms found in a particular area
What is a community?
The role the species plays in its environment.
What is a niche?
The slow, sequential regrowth of an area following a disturbance.
What is succession?
In this interaction, I am hunting for food to eat.
What is a predator?
An event that changes a community by removing or altering resources.
What is a disturbance?
Different species attempt to use the same resources in the same place.
What is competition?
A close and permanent relationship between two different species.
What is symbiosis?
Species richness varies with ____________.
What is latitude?
An interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism.
What is predation?
Eats plants
What is an herbivore?
The stable end point of succession.
What is climax community?
The relationship between two different species in which both benefit.
What is mutualism?
Things needed for survival such as water, food, and shelter.
What are resources?
A form of deception used by the prey as a means of defense against being eaten
What is mimicry?
The first to colonize the area.
What is a pioneer species?
The winner thrives and the loser fails
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
A relationship between two different species in which one benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped.
What is commensalism?
The development of a community in an area that has not had life before.
What is primary succession?
I am the one being hunted.
What is prey?
External parasite
What is an ectoparasite?
One or more species may change niches or anatomically
What is character displacement?
Term for the number of different species found living in an area.
What is species richness?
Replacement of species that follow a disturbance.
What is secondary succession?
When similar species coexist but uses only a part of the available resources.
What is resources partitioning?