Auburn BIOL 1020 Exam 4- Dr. Bowling Questions and All Correct Answers Updated.

Why do invasive species take over communities into which they have been introduced so much? - Answer Invasive species are not held in check by the predators and agents of disease that have always been in place for the natives What characterized relatively K-selected populations? - Answer offspring with good chances of survival Primary Succession - Answer Adaptive Radiation - Answer Sympatric Speciation - Answer process of genetically spliting a population in the same geographic location into two or more species Allopatric Speciation - Answer Hybridization - Answer Resource Partitioning - Answer Slight variations in niche allow similar species to coexist Estuary - Answer Wetland - Answer aquatic biome that is an area with water-saturated soil with at least periodic standing water Lake - Answer Coral Reef - Answer Intertidal Zone - Answer aquatic biome that is the interface between land and the sea, and is periodically submerged and exposed on a daily basis, twice daily in most places