AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In this, animals compete for food, water and space. Animals do not compete for mates. Interspecific competition can lead to the extinction of one or both species.

Detailed explanation-2: -Animals compete for food, water and space to live. Plants compete for light, water, minerals and root space.

Detailed explanation-3: -Interspecific competition occurs when members of more than one species compete for the same resource. Woodpeckers and squirrels often compete for nesting rights in the same holes and spaces in trees, while the lions and cheetahs of the African savanna compete for the same antelope and gazelle prey.

Detailed explanation-4: -Competition is a relationship between organisms that strive for the same resources in the same place. Intraspecific competition occurs between members of the same species. It im proves the species’ adaptations. Interspecific competition occurs between members of different species.

Detailed explanation-5: -Two of them, interference competition and exploitation competition, are categorized as real competition. A third form, apparent competition, is not. Interference competition occurs directly between individuals, while exploitation competition and apparent competition occur indirectly between individuals (Holomuzki et.