Populations and Communities - Page 3
Questions
- What is the simplest grouping of more than one kind of organism in the biosphere called?
- How is population different from community?
- What are interspecific competition, predation, and parasitism? How do these three negative interactions with other species affect a population?
- Would you expect most ecosystems to contain more species of primary consumers or secondary consumers?
- Give at least 5 reasons why it would be difficult to do a direct count of a population?
- Why are ecological pyramids shaped as pyramids?