Deck 13: Predation

Question 1

What is not one of the defenses of the Texas horned lizard?

A) Camouflage
B) Can puff themselves up to appear larger
C) Run quickly
D) Detachable tail
E) Can squirt blood from their eyes

Answer 1

Detachable tail

Question 2

Aposematic coloration is another word for

A) Camouflage
B) Warning coloration
C) Mimicry
D) Physical defense

Answer 2

Warning coloration

Question 3

Which type of defense is exhibited by the Indian leaf butterfly?

A) Batesian mimicry
B) Chemical defense
C) Physical defense
D) Aposematic coloration
E) Camouflage

Answer 3

Camouflage

Question 4

Batesian mimicry is exhibited by which targets and mimics?

A) Scarlet king snake and coral snake
B) Viceroy and sulfur butterflies
C) Syrphid flies and praying mantises
D) Sea horses and coral
E) Bombardier beetles and tiger beetles

Question 5

Non venomous fox snakes shake their tails in leaf litter to produce a sound like a rattlesnake. This is an example of:

A) Batesian mimicry
B) Mullerian mimicry
C) Aggressive mimicry
D) Camouflage
E) Aposematic coloration

Question 6

When periodic cicadas emerge and cause predator satiation after how many years do they generally emerge?

A) 11 or 13
B) 13 or 15
C) 13 or 17
D) 15 or 17
E) 17 or 21

Question 7

The mimicry of flowers by crab spiders, of worms by Alligator snapping turtle tongues and Photinus fireflies by Photuris fireflies are all examples of

A) Aggressive mimicry
B) Aposematic mimicry
C) Batesian mimicry
D) Mullerian mimicry
E) Camouflage mimicry

Question 8

What type of defense does the porcupine fish employ?

A) Chemical
B) Intimidation and armor
C) Batesian mimicry
D) Predator satiation
E) None of these answers

Question 9

Which of the following predator-prey pairs have exhibited coupled oscillation over long periods of time?

A) Lion and wildebeest
B) Sea lamprey and trout
C) Brown tree snake and birds
D) Lynx and snowshoe hare
E) Black footed ferret and prairie dog

Question 10

Which was the last of the Great Lakes to be colonized by sea lampreys?

A) Lake Ontario
B) Lake Superior
C) Lake Huron
D) Lake Michigan
E) Lake Erie

Question 11

Which of the following is not an invasive predator which has had strong effects on native prey?

A) Brown tree snake in Guam
B) Sea lamprey in Great Lakes
C) Lynx in Canada
D) Rainbow trout in High Sierra Lakes

Question 12

In studies of predator removal on prey populations in England, the strongest effects were seen when ________ predators were removed.

A) Bird
B) Mammal
C) Reptile
D) Bird and mammal
E) Reptile and mammal

Question 13

If r=0.1, and K=1000, what is the maximum sustainable yield of a population?

A) 50
B) 100
C) 500
D) 1000
E) 10,000

Question 14

The greatest population growth, and thus maximum yield, occurs at the _______ of the logistic curve.

A) Beginning
B) Midpoint
C) End

Question 15

In the history of Antarctic whaling, which was the first species to become greatly diminished in numbers?

A) Blue
B) Sei
C) Minke
D) Fin
E) Humpback

Question 16

Many countries have participated in whaling but many years ago the field was dominated by?

A) The US and Russia
B) China and Japan
C) France and Spain
D) New Zealand and Australia
E) Norway and the United Kingdom

Question 17

In Mullerian mimicry, a palatable species mimics an unpalatable species.

Question 18

According to the modified Lotka-Volterra predator prey models, increasing the degree of mutual interference or territoriality in predators decreases the amplitude of predator-prey oscillation.

Question 19

Cryptically colored prey often stay still when threatened

Question 20

In a comparison of the effects of native and invasive (introduced) predators, by Palvi Salo and colleagues, invasive predators had the strongest effects.

Question 21

Camouflage is often a form of mimicry.