Exam 5: Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control

Species that are bad-tasting, bad-smelling, toxic, or stinging-prey species advertise their characteristics using ____________________.

The primary reason why southern sea otter recovery is important is

____________________ is the combination of all factors that act to limit the growth of a population.

Late successional plants are largely unaffected by plants at earlier stages of succession, a factor called

Use the Figure above to answer the following question(s). -Choose the letter that represents a population's capacity for growth.

At the population level parasites are always harmful to the host species.

The concept that no two species can occupy the same ecological niche for an extended period of time is known as the ____________________.

Primary and secondary succession tend to increase biodiversity and the sustainability of communities and ecosystems.

Which of the following is an example of a density-dependent population control?

Which of the following has caused the population of the southern sea otters to fluctuate?

Some species experience an explosion of population growth to a high peak followed by a crash to a more stable lower level.This is called which of the following?

Use the Figure above to answer the following question(s). -Choose the portion of the curve that results from reproductive time lag.

A species whose population size fluctuates slightly above and below its carrying capacity is said to have a fairly ____________________ population size.

The relationship between clownfish and sea anemone is

Emigration is

Which of the following is not a method prey species use to avoid capture?

The author relates that some people think humans can keep expanding our environmental footprint indefinitely because of technology.Others think that we will, sooner or later, reach natural limits to our expansion.What do you think?

A population exceeding its carrying capacity suffers a(n) ____________________ or ____________________, unless the excess individuals can switch to new resources or move to a new area.

The most common distribution of populations is which of the following?

Which of the following would not considered predators?