Check Your Understanding
2. How does an increasing number of janitor fish affect other fish in the bay in Laguna Bay?
3. As the number of predators increases what will happen to the number of prey?
4. How does the ecological relationship affect the balance of the ecosystem?
Activities
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1. butterfly and flowers
2. orchids and tree trunk
3. frog and insects
4. mosquito and human
5. bird and fish
Type Organisms Effects of
Interaction
of among
Interaction organisms
in the
environment
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B. Give the effect or effects of each interaction on the organisms and in their environment.
1. pitcher plants catching insects
2. elephants fighting each other
3. barnacles attaching to the body of the whale
4. pine beetle laying its eggs in the pine tree
5. lichen consists of a fungus and some algae growing together
Answers & Comments
Answer:
2. It will become a threat to the local and native fish and eventually overpopulate the bay.
3. Prey will also decrease.
4. An ecological relationship is to be kept balanced so that the different species are unable to outgrow each other in number and so that the cycle can be kept normal. If a group of the same organism exceeds an abnormal number, it may collapse the cycle pf the ecosystem itself.
1. Mutualism
2. Symbiotic
3. Predation
4. Parasitism
5. Predation