Exam 17: Communities and Ecosystems

An example of a specific adaptation against predation is ____.

Nitrification is the process of ____.

Phorid flies lay their eggs inside the bodies of various insects and spiders. When the larvae hatch they consume the body of the 'host' from the inside out. The phorid fly is an example of a ____.

About half of all Americans rely on ____ for their drinking water.

Competitive exclusion is based upon the idea that ____.

In a natural community, the primary consumers are ____.

Most of the water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere comes from evaporation from ____.

How are parasitoids different from typical brood parasites?

Tapeworms and flukes are examples of ____.

Resource partitioning is the result of ____.

To control the population of RIFAs, _____ have been introduced, since they lay eggs in RIFAs but do not harm native ant species.

Hoverflies like to drop in at outdoor picnics to sample the sweets, but the reaction of humans is to flee the scene because of the flies' uncanny resemblance to bees. Thus, the survival of hoverflies is enhanced by ____.

In most land ecosystems, ____ food chains predominate.

This image shows an area in which a glacier has melted. What is indicated by the number "2"?