Chapter 8 test review and concept review

What example would be least likely to be considered a symbiotic interaction?

a kit fox hunts and feeds on a kangaroo rat

A territory is

an area defended by one or more individuals

What property of a population may be described as even, clumped, or random

dispersion

The carrying capacity of an environment for a particular time is determined by the ________

distribution of the population

What can occur of a population has plenty of food and space, and has no competition or predators

exponential growth

Bacteria in your intestines are an example of mutualism if they

help you break down your food

Which of the following species has the highest reproductive potential? rabbit, elephant, human, or a horse

horse

What two species represent a relationship that has coevolved?

house cats and their prey

A bird that feeds at night and a bird that feeds during the day from the same flower is an example of ________

indirect commensalism

In which type of interaction between species doe sone species benefit by harming another species but not killing it?

predation

What is not an example of exponential growth?

reindeer of the Probilof Islands after eating most of the lichens

If over a long period of time each pair of adults in a population had only two offspring and the offspring lived to reproduce, the population would _______

shrink

The number of wild horses per square kilometer in a prairie is the horses population's ________

size

Members of a species may compete with one another for

social dominance

The "co" in coevolution means

together

Two species can be indirect competitors

use the same food source at different times

Predators ______ kill their prey

usually

What is an example of a parasite

worm in your intestine

Competition for food cannot occur _______

between animals from two different ecosystems

A robin that does not affect the tree in which it nests is an example of

commensalism