Haunted Partnerships
A relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is a mutualism?
The spooky energy “trail” linking who eats whom
What is a food chain?
This organism only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
This large vegetable is primarily used on Halloween, with it's innards removed and a face carved into it.
What is a pumpkin?
Gorillas belong primarily to this continent.
What is Africa?
This is Mr. McAskill's first name. Spelling counts!
Who is Mata?
A relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
Many interlinked chains forming a “web of doom”
What is food web?
This organism only eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
Bats are often linked with Halloween because they were believed to accompany this mythical creature.
What are vampires?
True or False: Gorillas are a type of monkey.
False — they are apes, not monkeys.
Mr. McAskill did this for a profession before becoming a teacher.
What is a Real Estate Agent?
A relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of the other.
What is parasitism?
A triangle showing energy lost at each spooky trophic level
What is a food pyramid?
This organism eats both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
According to folklore, a person turns into a werewolf under this condition.
What is a full moon?
Gorillas are endangered mainly because of one of these three human-related threats.
What are habitat loss, poaching, and disease?
Mr. McAskill has this many animals.
Besides all his students, what is 6?
1 snake, 2 fish, and 3 cats.
When tiny ghost-like mites live in a spider’s web without affecting it.
What is commensalism?
A top predator lurking at the top of the haunted food chain
What is an apex predator?
This organism breaks down dead organisms into nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
This is the most popular Halloween candy in the United States.
What is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?
This 1933 film featured a giant ape inspired by gorillas and became a monster movie icon.
What is King Kong?
Before teaching and real estate, Mr. McAskill went to school to learn about this branch of Science.
What is Marine Biology?
Fungi slowly consuming living trees in a dark forest
What is parasitism?
Organisms that show if an ecosystem is healthy or not is known as this.
What is a bioindicator species?
This organism only eats dead organisms and scraps found.
What are scavengers?
The infamous Salem Witch Trials took place in this American colony in 1692.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This famous scientist recently passed away, but she was known for her work with primates, monkeys, and great apes, as well as being a large advocate for ecological conservation.
Who was Jane Goodall?
Mr. McAskill is this many years old.
What is 34 years old?