When a plant or animal is found in one place and nowhere else it is termed ________

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Answer: endemic

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In the Eastern United States, they breed almost exclusively in large colonies in artificial martin houses and hollowed-out gourds hung by martin enthusiasts, who often have to remove invasive house sparrows from these artificial nest sites in order for the martins to have a place to nest. The relationship between the martins and sparrows can best be described as ________, and the relationship between the martins and the martin enthusiasts can best be described as ________. A) predation; mutualism B) intraspecific competition; interspecific competition C) parasitism; symbiosis D) interspecific competition; mutualism

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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