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Ap Biology Worksheet

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1. An individual that plays only part of its role because of competition or other types of species interactions is said to display a realized niche. Species over time divide the resources they commonly use by specializing in different ways.
2. Predation: A process in which species hunt, capture, kill, and eat the prey.
Parasitism: A relationship where an organism such as a parasite is dependent on a host.
Herbivory: Animals that strictly rely on plants.
3. Symbiotic Mutualisms: Plant provide energy and protection to the fungus while the fungus helps the plant absorb nutrients from the soil.
Non-symbiotic Mutualisms: Species don’t depend on each other and don’t live together.
An example of mutualism in everyday life is our digestive tracts …show more content…

5. A keystone species has a high impact on a community by keeping an ecosystem together. Most often Beavers, Bears, and Bees are just a couple of keystone species.
6. Primary Succession is starting from nothing and then slowly over years rebuilds into a habitable place such as starting from bare rock to pioneer species adapt and colonize what was nothing into something. Secondary succession is a process of recovering from a natural disaster or from human interaction with the earth such as faming.
7. Invasive species make bad situations into worse situations. Having a species from a different ecosystem makes them invasive species. Such as a toad or even bacteria being in another ecosystem other than their natural habitat.
8. Restoration ecologists study the ecological communities before humans had any interaction with it. The importance of this study is that if the ecosystem can’t function we are able to do something about it.
9. A biome is several communities in one specific area - a large scale ecological unit recognized primarily by its dominant plant type and vegetation structure. Temperature and precipitation can predict the type of biome that forms on a

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