3.1 Study Guide

Question 1

What is an example of mutualism?

Answer 1

A bird cleaning a crocodile for nutrients

Question 2

What is an example of commensalism?

Answer 2

A vulture eating the remains of a lion’s prey.

Question 3

What is an example of parasitism?

Answer 3

A bacteria killing the blood cells in a human for food.

Question 4

What is the ratio for predation?

Answer 4

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Question 5

What is the ratio for competition

Answer 5

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Question 6

What is the ratio for mutualism?

Answer 6

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Question 7

How does niche partitioning effect a population?

Answer 7

It shows what the species share in common for when they eat, what they eat, and how they eat it in a certain area.

Question 8

What would happen if you changed the species in a niche into an area with two times the amount of species?

Answer 8

I think that if you were to put a species into an area with more species there would be less competition because there would be more food for everyone and it could also maintain the same partitioning if the population were to grow two times to fit the new area’s food amount.