Unit 5 - Activity 1 - Population Growth and Affects Worksheet

Name: ______________ Date:________________

Use the following link:

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/einsteinhs/departments/
Ecology%20Packet%202(2).pdf

To answer to questions below

Please read pages 8-12

1. Explain how a cow is both a predator and a prey.

2. Competition within the same species is called ____________ competition.
a. Intraspecific
b. Interspecific
3. Explain how interspecific competition can drive evolution

Please read pages 13- 14

4. A symbiotic relationship is formed:

a. When both organisms are related to each other
b. Only when both organisms benefit from living closely together
c. When at least one organism benefits from living closely with another
5. Moray eels will open their mouths and allow special shrimp to come in and eat the
parasites living in their mouth. The shrimp enter for their meal confident that the eel
will not eat them
a. Why wont the eel eat the shrimp?
b. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?

Please read 23 -24

6. San Francisco, California has a population of about 800,00 and has a land area of about
47 square miles. Houston, Texas has 2.1 million people in an area of about 579 square
miles. Which city is more crowded?
7. Dandelion seeds get dispersed by the wind and can grow almost anywhere. What type
of population distribution would you expect to see for dandelions?
a. Clumped
b. Random
c. Uniform

Thinking Question: Use and apply your knowledge

8. What are some limiting factors that cause a population to reach a carrying capacity?
 Answers

1. If a cow eats grass, the cow would be the predator, and the grass would be a prey. On
the other hand, if the cow gets eaten by another animal such as a tiger, it would become
a prey and the tiger would be a predator.

2.a) Intraspecific

3. Intraspecific competition, or the avoidance of it, depletes the availability of these

resources, which has a negative impact on population reproduction success. Within a species, it
leads to the emergence of greater adaptations.

4. b) Only when both organisms benefit from living closely together

5.a) The shrimp helps the eel clean its teeth. If it ate the shrimp, it wouldn't get that service.

b) Mutualism

6. Texas

7.Random Dispersion

8. Abiotic variables like water, air, and space, as well as biotic factors like food, are all
available.