C4.1 Populations and Communities
14 review questions with answers for C4.1 Populations and Communities, marked SL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
A relationship where a primary consumer feeds on a producer?
- HerbivoryRight answer
- Population
- Parasitism
- Predation
All 14 questions and answers
A relationship where a primary consumer feeds on a producer?
Answer: Herbivory
A relationship where one consumer kills and eats another consumer?
Answer: Predation
When different species vie for the same limited resource in a community?
Answer: Interspecific Competition
An interspecific relationship that results in a benefit for both species?
Answer: Mutualism
A relationship where one organism lives on or in a host and harms it?
Answer: Parasitism
The specific ability of an organism to cause disease in its host?
Answer: Pathogenicity
A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area at the same time?
Answer: Population
All the interacting populations of different species in a specific area?
Answer: Community
The maximum population size that a particular environment can sustain indefinitely?
Answer: Carrying Capacity (K)
The total of a species' use of biotic and abiotic resources; its "role" in the ecosystem?
Answer: Ecological Niche
When a population is limited by resources like nutrients or energy at the base of the food chain?
Answer: Bottom-up Control
When a population is limited by predation or herbivory from higher trophic levels?
Answer: Top-down Control
A non-native species that spreads and outcompetes native species, often lacking natural predators?
Answer: Invasive Species
An interaction where one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed?
Answer: Commensalism
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options are other answers from the same set.