Don't prey on me
Foraging
All about relationships
Grab bag
My Favorite Fish
100
A non-poisonous species that has evolved to resemble a poisonous model species.
What is a Batesian mimic?
100
A resource that can be regenerated.
What is a renewable resources?
100
The relationship between fish and fish lice is an example of this.
What is parasitism? (a parasitic relationship)
100
Requires candidates to group things based on common characteristics.
What is classify?
100
This colorful little guy lives in a mutualistic relationship with the sea anemone.
What is a clown fish?
200
A conspicuous coloration which signals to a predator that the prey is distasteful or even poisonous.
What is Aposematic coloration?
200
A model of foraging that predicts the array of prey types included in the diet as a function of overall prey density.
What is diet-breadth model?
200
A group of individuals of the same species in a particular habitat.
What is a population?
200
A device by which an individual can avoid predation.
What is a refuge?
200
The largest member of the shark family.
What is a whale shark?
300
An evolved toughening of the body wall or stiffening by means of internal structures like bones, scales, or spines (can occur in plants or animals).
What is a Mechanical defense?
300
Vent shrimp forage on mats of this.
What is chemosynthetic bacteria (non-symbiotic)?
300
The biological interaction between rainbow runners and sharks would be described as this type of relationship.
What is a commensal relationship?
300
H.M.S.
What is His(Her) Majesty's Ship?
300
A commensal sneaker that hangs with sharks and other larger fish.
What is a remora?
400
Features that make the organism inconspicuous against an environmental background.
What is crypsis?
400
A model that predicts the optimal time that a forager should exploit a patch of food before moving on to another patch.
What is Time-in-patch model?
400
Relationship (+ , 0)
What is a commensal relationship?
400
The range of physical and biological habitats occupied by a species.
What is ecological niche?
400
The first name of the Miami Marlin's mascot marlin.
What is a "Billy"?
500
A defense against predation that is produced only when predators are present.
What is inducible defense?
500
A theory which predicts foraging that maximizes food intake per unit time.
What is optimal foraging theory?
500
A biological interaction between two species in which both derive some benefit.
What is Mutualism ('symbiosis" in AICE)
500
This English biologist first proposed the Azoic Theory.
Who is Edward Forbes?
500
This reef fish eats algae inside of corals and poops sand.
What is a parrot fish?
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