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Assessment

Chapter Test B
Community Ecology
In the space provided, write the letter of the description that best matches the
term or phrase.

______ 1. mutualism a. relative abundance of each species

b. killing and consuming another
______ 2. species richness
organism
______ 3. parasitism c. interaction in which both species
benefit
______ 4. secondary succession
d. sequence of species in a disturbed area
______ 5. commensalism e. type of symbiosis in which one species
benefits and the other is harmed
______ 6. primary succession
f. number of species in a community
______ 7. predation
g. interaction in which one species
______ 8. species evenness benefits
h. plants growing where bare rock was
______ 9. herbivore
i. plant-eater
______10. carnivore j. eats animals

In the space provided, write the letter of the term or phrase that best completes
each statement or best answers each question.

______11. In order to reduce competition, two species living in the same area will
utilize different resources in the environment. This is an example of
a. interspecific competition. c. mimicry.
b. competitive exclusion. d. resource partitioning.

______12. When two or more dangerous species look similar it is called

a. competitive exclusion. c. Müllerian mimicry.
b. commensalism. d. Batesian mimicry.

______13. Which of the following is a common pioneer species?

a. lichens c. dogwood trees
b. conifer trees d. small shrubs

______14. Which of the following is an example of mimicry?

a. heat-sensitive pits of rattlesnakes
b. leaflike coloration of a mantis
c. bright coloration of certain frogs
d. colored rings of a coral snake

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Community Ecology, Chapter Test B continued

______15. Which of the following is NOT an example of a predator’s adaptation

for finding prey?
a. spiders’ webs that trap flying insects
b. stripes on a tiger’s coat that blend with the grassland habitat of
small animals
c. stripes on a nonpredatory wasp that resemble the stripes of a
predatory wasp
d. rattlesnakes’ heat-sensitive pits that detect warm-bodied prey

______16. Which of the pairs of parasites listed below are endoparasites?

a. tapeworms and leeches
b. malaria parasites and tapeworms
c. leeches and fleas
d. ticks and mosquitoes

______ 17. Competition is most intense between closely related species that
a. are similar in appearance. c. use the same resources.
b. have different beak sizes. d. use different resources.

______18. An ecologist studying an ocean ecosystem performed an experiment in

which predatory sea stars were removed from the ecosystem. After the
removal of the sea stars,
a. the ecosystem became more diverse.
b. the size of the ecosystem was reduced.
c. food webs in the ecosystem became more complex.
d. the number of species in the ecosystem was reduced.

______19. The longest-held hypothesis to explain the relationship between species

richness and community stability states that communities with more
species
a. contain more links between species and thus can withstand greater
disturbance.
b. inhabit large land areas, which are always richer in species than
small land areas.
c. recover more quickly from environmental disturbances.
d. can evolve more new species than communities with fewer species.

______20. Pioneer species

a. disperse many seeds over a large area.
b. are usually small plants.
c. are usually fast-growing.
d. All of the above

______21. When two species in a community are both competing for the same
limited resource and one is eliminated, it is an example of
a. commensalism. c. a predator-prey relationship.
b. competitive exclusion. d. resource partitioning.

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Modern Biology 158 Chapter Test