When one species actively prevents another from accessing a resource, it is called ____.

A) interference competition
B) exploitative competition
C) scavenging
D) character displacement
E) predation

Interference competition is when one species actively prevents another from accessing a resource, whereas exploitative competition is when one species uses more of a shared resource than the other. Scavenging is a feeding strategy where an animal eats dead animals, and predation is when one animal kills and eats another. Character displacement is the evolutionary divergence of traits in two similar species that allows them to coexist in the same environment.