5 Written Questions

1. Evolution
2. natural selection
3. demonstrate if a species can live in an environment or demonstrate the effects of human activities
4. organisms that produce diseases
5. boundary between one habitat and its neighbors

5 Matching Questions

1. Primary Succession
2. Tolerance Limits
3. Ecological Development
4. Batesian Mimicry
5. Territoriality

1. a gradual process of environmental change brought about by organisms (succession)
2. b succession that begins in an area that has never been occupied by a community
3. c When one species mimics color, patterns, or body shapes of poisonous species.
4. d chemical and/or physical factors that limit the existence, growth, abundance, or distribution of an organism
5. e the behavior of a male animal that defines and defends its territory

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. community subject to periodic disruptions, often by fire, that prevent it from reaching a climax stage
   1. Climax Community
   2. Fire-Climax Communities
   3. Disclimax Communities
   4. Equilibrium Communities
2. Total number of organisms in a biological community
   1. Pathogens
   2. Abundance
   3. Habitat
   4. Predator
3. a symbiotic relationship in which on organism lives on or in (feeds), the parasite on another living organism (host); one organism is aided by the association, the other is "harmed" in varying degrees depending upon the relationship
   1. Habitat
   2. Pathogens
   3. Parasitism
   4. Predator
4. transition zone between two adjacent ecological communities
   1. Ecotones
   2. Symbiosis
   3. Pathogens
   4. Evolution
5. One organism benefits, the other is unharmed.
   1. Mutualism
   2. Symbiosis
   3. Complexity
   4. Commensalism

5 True/False Questions

1. Intraspecific Competition → competition for the same resources between members of different species

   True        False

2. Secondary Succession → succession that begins in an area that has never been occupied by a community

   True        False

3. Coevolution → Evolution caused by the evolution of another species.

   True        False

4. Predator → a relationship in which an organism of one species (predator) captures and feeds on parts or all of another species (prey)

   True        False

5. Mutualism → One organism benefits, the other is unharmed.

   True        False