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Predator-Prey!
vs.
Key points of this activity:
•Ratios and Food Pyramids
•Competition
•Biomagnification
•Checks-and-balances
•Survival of the fittest and Adaptations
Ratios
• Sustainability
• Which ratio is best? Why?
• How does this tie in to pyramid
shape?
Competition
• Defined
• Among species = Predation
• Within species
Biomagnification
• California Condor and DDT
• How did it apply in our rabbit/coyote
game?
Checks and Balances
• Where have you heard this term
before?
• Apply it to Ecology and the
rabbits/coyotes.
Adaptation/Survival of Fittest
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Adaptation
Natural Selection
Evolution
Know an example of adapting:
– to predators
– to competitors
– in symbiosis
Look it Up! (Get 2 examples of
each)
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Life and the Molecule:
Time-Life Ecology:
Time-Life Plants:
Ecology text:
Mutualism
Commensalism
pp 394-397
pp 110-115
pp 147-153
pp 38-35
Parasitism
LINKS
Quick summary about Isle Royale
Isle Royale population study report