Interactions Guide 2A
This guide focuses on animals and their interactions with other species.
Video Overview
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Interactions Guide Contents
Complete all four of these sections before taking the quiz and submitting your two journal pages.
Interactions Guide Objectives
This guide’s quiz has four questions; one matching each objective.
Species Interactions
List positive, negative, and neutral forms of community interactions, including specific examples of predators, herbivores, and types of competition; define symbiosis, including examples of mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism; and provide examples of symbiosis found in the Willamette Valley.
Animals
List and describe basic characteristics shared by animals; explain what a vertebrate is and the lineage of vertebrates over time; and list the basic characteristics of fish species and describe the structure of fish scales.
Invertebrates
Provide examples of annelid invertebrates; describe what scavengers, detritivores, and decomposers consume, including why they are significant to other species; and provide examples of organisms commonly found in soil communities.
Insects
List the characteristics of arthropods and provide examples of crustaceans, insects, and arachnids; describe the basic structural characteristics of insects; and name several insect orders, including representative insects in these orders.
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