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This document provides directions for an environmental science activity to watch a documentary film and fill out a table describing species interactions shown in the film. The table includes examples of predation, competition, mutualism, commensalism, and neutralism between various animal species such as mackerels and krill, wildebeest and hunting dogs, seabirds and anchovies, honeycreepers and flowers, caribou and trees, frogs and leaves, elephants and flamingos, and penguins and whales. The activity is part of a college environmental science course and is scored and dated.

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Interaction

This document provides directions for an environmental science activity to watch a documentary film and fill out a table describing species interactions shown in the film. The table includes examples of predation, competition, mutualism, commensalism, and neutralism between various animal species such as mackerels and krill, wildebeest and hunting dogs, seabirds and anchovies, honeycreepers and flowers, caribou and trees, frogs and leaves, elephants and flamingos, and penguins and whales. The activity is part of a college environmental science course and is scored and dated.

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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Activity No: 4 in
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (SCIE102)

Name: Josiah Samuel Organo España Score: _____________


Schedule: WF 1:00 to 2:30 Date: October 3, 2020

Directions: Watch the documentary film in this link:

https://youtu.be/GfO-3Oir-qM

Fill out the needed information in the table and based your answers on the documentary film
that you have watched. Give at least two (2) situations of each species interactions that were
shown in the film.

SPECIES INTERACTIONS SITUATION SPECIES INVOLVED


1. A shoal of mackerel has PREDATOR: Mackerels
discovered a swarm of krill,
the small crustaceans below PREY: Krill
the sea which they feed on.

PREDATION
2. A wide herd of wildebeest PREDATOR: African hunting
migrating into another
dogs
ecosystem chased and
preyed by a species of wild
PREY: Wildebeest
hunting dogs.

COMPETITION 1. A variety of mackerel PREDATOR 1: Shearwater


swimming in the ocean is a bird
food for both shearwater
birds from above the waters, PREDATOR 2: Dolphins
and dolphins from below.
PREY: Mackerel
2. Numerous flocks of
seabirds from above feed on
a school of anchovies living PREDATOR 1: Cormorant
in the ocean. These locally seabirds
breeding seabirds rely on
anchovies for one or more PREDATOR 2: Boobies
seasons of the year.
PREY: Anchovies

1. A species of small nectar- Honeycreeper


eating bird pollinating a
species of flower in the wild, A species of wild flower
with its nectar in return.

MUTUALISM
2. A flower-dependent bee Male orchid bees
helps an orchid flower to
transfer its pollen grain to Bucket orchid flower
another flower for asexual
reproduction, in exchange to
its sweet nectar.

1. A herd of caribou sheds Caribou


over a forest to spare them
from being affected by Tall trees in the forest
extreme cold temperature
and protect them from being
preyed by a group of wolves.
COMMENSALISM

2. A frog using big leaves as


protection from weathering
conditions; leaving the leaves Frog
unaffected but the frog
protected. Big leaves of a plant species

NEUTRALISM
1. Two different species of Elephants
elephants and flamingo living
in the salt pan were not Flamingos
affecting each other in any
ways.

2. A group of penguins
swimming in the ocean with Penguins
humpback whales without
harming or benefiting each Humpback whales
other.

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