Exam 30: Species Interactions and Community Ecology

Which type of interaction is advantageous for one species, but has no effect on the other?

What is the definition of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis?

What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?

Match each description to the appropriate term. -one species harms organisms of another species

Sympatric species live in different places.

A tropical rain forest would most likely include vegetation that includes a canopy.

Use the terms in the list to identify each lettered portion of the food web. -top carnivore

Use the terms in the list to identify each lettered portion of the food web. -secondary consumers

Put the following stages of secondary succession in the proper order. Start by writing the letter of the first stage next to the number 1, and so on. A. asters and broomsedges B. crabgrass C. hardwood trees D. horseweed E. pine seedlings F. ragweed G. shrubs first event _________ second event __________ third event __________ fourth event __________ fifth event __________ sixth event __________ seventh event __________

Use the terms in the list to identify each lettered portion of the food web. -quaternary consumers

The relationship between the bull's horn acacia tree and a species of small ants is a highly coevolved predation.

Caterpillars of monarch butterflies are immune to the cardiac glycosides in the dandelion leaves they eat.

Which trophic level would be best represented by a rabbit?

What is the best way to investigate the effects of factors that influence populations?

Use the terms in the list to identify each lettered portion of the food web. -tertiary consumers

Which sentence best summarizes the relationship between species richness and recovery from natural disturbances?

Which hypothesis states that new species are prevented from entering a community by the existing species?

Match each description to the appropriate term. -species closely resembling another species

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis says that species richness is least in a community that has moderate disturbances.

Compare fundamental and realized niche.