READ: Communities
2. Objectives and Vocabulary
Community Interactions
Lesson Objectives
- Define community as the term is used in ecology.
- Describe predation and its effects on population size and evolution.
- Explain why interspecific competition leads to extinction or greater specialization.
- Compare and contrast mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
- Outline primary and secondary succession, and define climax community.
Vocabulary
- climax community
- commensalism
- ecological succession
- host
- interspecific competition
- intraspecific competition
- keystone species
- mutualism
- parasite
- parasitism
- pioneer species
- predation
- predator
- prey
- primary succession
- secondary succession
- specialization
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