Predator and Prey

What is a predator?

• An animal that is killed and eaten by other animals

• An animal that kills and eats other animals

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What is prey?

• An animal that is killed and eaten by another animal.

• An animal that kills and eats other animals.

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Alligator

• Predator

• Prey

Wild Pig

• Predator

• Prey

In this relationship, one organism hunts, kills, and eats the other organism.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Predator-Prey

• Parasitism

Which of the following best exemplifies a predator-prey relationship?

• A lion hunting a zebra.

• A bee pollinating a flower.

• A clownfish living among sea anemone.

• A shark swimming with remoras.

Read the following passage about the predator and prey relationships between animals in a forest ecosystem. A rabbit runs through the forest trying to escape the talons of a red-tailed hawk that is trying to feed its offspring. In the same forest, a snake is curling around a possum in expectation of an easy meal. Prior to being caught by the snake, the possum had dined on a breakfast of insects. Later that afternoon, a fox wandering through the forest finds a snake, immobilized because of its large meal, and effectively kills the snake for an easy meal. Select all of the Prey Only

• Fox

• Rabbit

• Insects

• Opossum

Organisms that hunt other organisms for food are called __________.

• predators

• prey

• producers

• Decomposers

An animal that hunts other animals for food is a ___________

• herbivore

• predator

• prey

• omnivore

All living things within an ecosystem are interdependent. A change in the size of one population affects the stability of all other organisms within the ecosystem. One well known predator/prey relationship is between the Canadian lynx (predator) and the snowshoe hare (prey). What happens to the population of Canadian lynx if there is an increase in snowshoe hare?

• The Canadian lynx population will increase.

• The Canadian lynx population will decrease.

• The Canadian lynx population will remain the same.

• The Canadian lynx population will remain the same because the Canadian lynx can only eat so many snowshoe hare.

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