Ecology Week 7

In your study bear group, find new examples of ecological relationships and write them on the note board.

Poll

What type of ecological relationship are you vibing with today?

• Competitive

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Let's Go Lego

• scaffold document located on school (hard copies are in the front

• Participation

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​Materials Needed:

Multiple Choice

There are about 20 million people in New York State, with a total land area of about 47,000 square miles.

What is the population density of New York State?

• .0004 people per sq. mile

• 426 people per sq. mile

• 2,350 people per sq. mile

• 940,000 people per sq. mile

Point of Actions

9=Points Game Mastery

6 Points Good but be braver.

3 Points Choose now or never.

0 Points=Come see me for tutoring and let's try again.

Multiple Choice

What growth pattern chart is used to show exponential growth?

• J-shaped curve

• S-shaped curve

• Carrying capacity

• Limiting factors

Multiple Choice

The milk snake and the coral snake both have red, yellow, and black alternating stripes. In the milk snake, black stripes separate bands of red and yellow. In the coral snake, yellow stripes separate black and red bands. The milk snake is non-venomous, but the coral snake is highly venomous. How are these snakes an example of coevolution?

• The coral snake and the milk snake form a mutualistic symbiosis

• The coral snake and the milk snake have both evolved to eat the same types of prey

• The coral snake is selectively favored by mimicking the non-venomous milk snake.

• The milk snake is selectively favored by mimicking the venomous coral snake.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following plant adaptations give evidence that herbivores have caused (or have driven) evolution in some plant species to protect themselves against being eaten? Select the best two answers.

• the ability to climb and thorns

• thorns and the production of toxic chemicals

• sweet fruits and the ability to climb

• the production of toxic chemicals and thorns

• mechanisms for seed dispersal and

  sweet fruits

Multiple Choice

Right now, at this moment, I am typing and attempting to keep my grandson from ___________.

• pulling his hair

• scratching his ezcema

• all the above

• fighting his sleep

Multiple Choice

Individuals are arbitrarily throughout a given area

• uniform dispersion

• random dispersion

• population density

• population dispersion

Multiple Choice

The four basic factors that influence the size of a population are:

• births

  deaths

  ethnicity

  mortality

• births

  deaths

  immigration

  ethnicity

• births

  deaths

  immigration

  emigration

• births

  deaths

  chronic diseases

  emigration

Multiple Choice

Regardless of location, wolves tend to form packs that hunt together and help one another rear their young. Which of the following most likely describes the population of dispersion of wolves in a given ecosystem?

• clumped

• uniform

• random

• individual

Multiple Choice

The patterns (population dispersion) can reveal how ____ species interact among one another or how ______ of the same ______ interact with one another. Select the correct word order pattern.

• alike individuals species

• different individuals

  species

• different individuals

  ecosystem

• different individuals

  biome

Point of Actions

8=Points Game Mastery

5 Points Good but be braver.

3 Points Choose now or never.

0 Points=Come see me for tutoring and let's try again.