Download Interactions Worksheet ANSWER KEY

1. Natural selection
2. better suited individuals survive and
pass on their genes
3. cheetah’s speed enables him to be able
to catch his food, hawks keen eye
sees fish from a far distance
4. an organisms particular role, or how it
makes its living
5. FALSE – they would be in competition
for the same types of food sources
(cannot occupy the same niche)
6. competition, predations, and symbiosis
7. limited resources
8. monkeys pick each other’s fleas or
when wolves work together to capture
large prey.
9. Predation
10.
Prey – killed and
eaten
Predator – kills
and eats
11. a close relationship between two
species that benefits at least one of
them.
12. symbiotic relationships
a)
mutualism – both species benefit
b)
commensalism– one species benefits and the
other species is unaffected
a)
parasitism – one species benefits by harming
the other species
13. not moving
14. mutualism – the clownfish gets
protection from its predators, and the
anemone get nutrients dropped by the
clownfish. The clownfish also chases
away the smaller predators of the
anemone.