5.2 Species Interactions Answer Key
Question: Niche
Answer: Describes what an organism does and how it interacts with biotic and abiotic factors
Question: Tolerance
Answer: The ability to survive and reproduce under a range of environmental circumstances
Question: resource partitioning
Answer: species divide the resource they use in common by specializing in different ways
Question: Predation
Answer: The process by which one organism captures and feeds upon another organism
Question: Coevolution
Answer: Process by which two species evolve in response to changes in each other
Question: Parasitism
Answer: a relationship in which one organism depends on another for a benefit
Question: Symbiosis
Answer: Long lasting and physically close relationship in which at least one organism benefits
Question: Herbivory
Answer: interaction in which one animal (the herbivore) feeds on producers (such as plants)
Question: Mutualism
Answer: A relationship between two species in which both species benefit
Question: Commensalism
Answer: Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed