Amoeba Sisters Video Recap: Ecological Relationships
1. After watching the video, how would you define the term 2. What is meant by predation? What is the relationship
ecological relationship? Are they always beneficial to between a predator and a prey?
organisms involved?
the different species that live together in an area make up an
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ecological community part of the body of another organism, the prey
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3. Sketch a predator and prey graph as demonstrated in Vocabulary application: Consider the antlion and the term
the video. competition. Explain how the antlion might experience
competition using an example NOT mentioned in the video.
5. Antlions can experience competition when…
they are still larvae and looking for food or prey intake
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6. Is the example you selected involving a biotic or abiotic
4. How are the predator and prey graph lines related to factor? How do you know?
each other?
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there is almost always more prey than predators. Abiotic elements, such as water, soil, and atmosphere, are
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non-living while biotic ones, such as plants, animals, and
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bacteria, are present in an environment.
Amoeba Sisters Video Recap: Ecological Relationships
Symbiotic relationships involve an interaction of organisms that live together. The table below will ask you to define
each relationship in your own words, illustrate a way you can remember the interaction, and provide an example of
each relationship from the video.
Symbiotic Define in Your Own Illustrate a Way to Remember What was the Example in
Relationship Words the Video?
7. 8. 9.
a close
relationship
Parasitism between species
10. 11. 12.
Mutualism
13. 14. 15.
Commensalism
16. Think about the terms predation and parasitism. How would you explain the difference of the two terms to a friend who
was confused about these relationships?
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