What level of biodiversity involves a variety of habitats and communities?
Ecosystem Diversity
What term refers to species that provide early warnings of damage to a community or an ecosystem?
Indicator Species
What organisms have broad niches, can live in many different places, eat a variety of foods, and often tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions?
Generalist Species
What interaction/relationship exists between two organisms wherein one organism benefits but has little, if any, beneficial or harmful effect on the other?
Commensalism
A barnacle grows on a whale, doing it no harm. What relationship exists between these two organisms?
Commensalism
How do you call parasites that live outside the host?
Ectoparasite
What relationship exists between clownfish and sea anemone?
Mutualism
what is an example of interspecific competition?
Trees and weeds growing in the same area
What form of deception is practiced by a variety of animals wherein they try to look, act, smell or sound like something else, such as another organism or other natural object, to gain some advantage of protections?
Mimicry
Poison dart frogs wear some of the most brilliant and beautiful colors on Earth. Their elaborate designs and hues are deliberately ostentatious to ward off potential predators. What strategy is this?
Warning coloration
Generalist species have what?
broad niches
Specialist species have?
certain niches
Native species are species that?
normally live in an ecosystem
non native species are considered as?
aliens or exotics
key stone species are species that?
have a large effect on other species in an ecosystem
intraspecific competition is a competition between two organisms that?
are the same species
interspecific competition is a competition between two organisms that?