Chapter 12 - Predation and Herbivory

Question 1

A trophic interaction where a predator consumes a prey

Answer 1

Predation

Question 2

The one that consumes an individual

Answer 2

Predator

Question 3

The one that is being consumed

Answer 3

Prey

Question 4

Predation wherein the predator and prey are both animals

Answer 4

Carnivory

Question 5

Predation where the predator is an animal, while the prey is either a plant or algae

Answer 5

Herbivory

Question 6

Predation where the predator lives in symbiosis with its prey

Answer 6

Parasitism

Question 7

Close physical and/or physiological contact between the predator and its prey

Answer 7

Symbiosis

Question 8

What do you call the predator in parasitism

Answer 8

Parasite

Question 9

What do you call the prey in parasitism

Answer 9

Host

Question 10

Parasites that can cause disease in their hosts

Answer 10

Pathogens

Question 11

Insects that typically lay one or few eggs on or in another insect

Answer 11

Parasitoids

Question 12

T/F: Carnivores have narrow diets

Answer 12

F - remember na mobile ang preys here so di sila pwede maging choosy hahah kasi mahirap humuli :3

Question 13

Function of search time or the time it takes to search and find prey

Answer 13

Encounter time

Question 14

Time it takes to subdue and consume the prey

Answer 14

Handling time

Question 15

T/F: herbivores are specialists

Answer 15

T - again, narrow diets sila then broad diets if carnivores

Question 16

Predators blend into their environment so well that prey may be unaware of their presence until it is too late

Answer 16

Mimicry

Question 17

Species that often contain powerful toxins are ____ colored

Answer 17

Brightly

Question 18

Provide protection from predators which may instinctually avoid prey that are brightly colored or may learn from experience not to eat them

Answer 18

Warning (aposematic) coloration

Question 19

Form of mimicry where species have a shape or coloration that provides camouflage, allowing them to avoid detection by predators

Answer 19

Crypsis

Question 20

T/F: asawa ba ako ni shohei, mingyu, wonwoo, zhou, sebastian, jaekyung, taesoo, etc.?

Answer 20

T - subukan mong mag F

Question 21

Form of mimicry where the shape and coloration mimic those of a species that is fierce or that contains a potent toxin

Answer 21

False advertising

Question 22

Allows plants to hide (in time) from seed-eating herbivores, then overwhelm them by sheer numbers

Answer 22

Masting

Question 23

Occurs when removal of plant tissues stimulates a plant to produce new tissues, allowing for relatively rapid replacement of the material eaten by herbivores

Answer 23

Compensation

Question 24

____ defense is stimulated by herbivore attacc

Answer 24

Induced

Question 25

The wide variety of chemicals that plants produce that function to reduce herbivory

Answer 25

Secondary compounds

Question 26

T/F: the production of secondary compound is an induced defense

Answer 26

T hahahahhahahahahahahhaha

Question 27

Compounds that deter herbivores directly

Answer 27

Toxic secondary compounds

Question 28

Compounds that deter herbivores indirectly by attracting predators and parasitoids

Answer 28

Volatile compounds

Question 29

What do you call the model that represents the dynamics of predator-prey interactions?

Answer 29

Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model

• ALFRED LOTKA AND VITO VOLTERRA

Question 30

The condition in which the population size of the prey does not change in size for a given number of predators

Answer 30

Isocline OR zero population growth isocline

Question 31

Magnitude by which predator and prey numbers rise and fall

Answer 31

Amplitude of the cycle

Question 32

Alternating phases of population growth and decline

Answer 32

Boom bust cycle