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6. 'The non-territorial exclusion of an organism from an area e.g. scavengers fighting over a carcass'.
- Consumption competition
- Encounter competition
- Preemption competition
- Territorial competition
7. 'When an organism is the first to inhabit an area or exploit a particular resource, it competitively excludes others from doing the same'.
- encounter competition
- preemption competition
- overgrowth competition
- competitive release
8. 'When physiological differences are higher in sympatric populations than allopatric populations, because of disruptive selection'.
- Character displacement
- Niche overlap
- Competitive release
- Fundamental niche
9. In order to prove his theory of competitive exclusion, Gause performed experiments on ....
- Paramecium bacteria (aurelia, caudatum and bursaria)
- Barnacles (balanus and chthalamus)
- Birds ( warblers)
- Coral and different species of zooxanthellae
10. 'When resources are shared more evenly by all organisms in a population, resulting in reduced fitness for all individuals.'
- Self-thinning rule
- Exploitation
- Scramble competition
- Contest competition
11. An introduced species becomes an invasive species when....
- It clings to boats and will reach the new area by the sea.
- It harms the native ecosystem and the organism within it.
- It becomes dominant in the ecosystem.
