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Video Questions:
The following are a list of all the questions for the
videos we have watched throughout the semester.
“The Deep”
Video Questions:
1. List the various adaptations that animals living in the
deep have for finding food and escaping predators.
2. a) What is the source of bioluminescence in the deep sea?
2. b) In what ways do deep sea animals use bioluminescence to their advantage?
3. a) What biological/chemical process supplies deep sea vent communities with
energy?
3. b) In what ways are hydrothermal vent communities different from the
underwater “lake” community discovered in 1990?
Plant Predators
Video Questions:
1. How has the sloth adapted to the low nutrient content of its leaf
diet?
2. a) Can mammals digest cellulose?
2. b) How can herbivorous mammals survive on plants as their only food
source?
3. List the ways in which a tapir avoids being poisoned by the toxins contained
in the plants it feeds on.
4. How do pikas use plant poisons to their advantage?
5. a) What are some of mineral deficiencies that plant predators face?
5. b) List the ways in which they supplement their diet with minerals.
6. a) What are the various defenses that plants have against their predators?
6. b) What are the various adaptations that plant predators have to deal with
these plant defenses?
7. What are the adaptations that the following animals have for feeding on
acacia?
a) dik dik:
b) impala:
c) gerenuk:
d) giraffe:
e) elephant:
“
Coral
Seas
” Video Questions
1. What provides support to the flesh of a coral polyp?
2. Where are coral reefs found?
3. Why do corals need sunlight?
4. Are corals autotrophic or heterotrophic?
How do they feed?
5. What happens when corals start to overgrow one another?
6. a) What do humphead parrotfish feed on?
b) What is formed from the sandy excrement of humphead parrotfish?
7. What benefits do social colonies of shrimp get by living in a sponge?
8. What signals do sharks rely on when hunting?
9. How does the banded pipefish reproduce? What
is the benefit of this strategy?
10. What is the role of the whale song in reproduction?
11. What is the ultimate goal of all breeding strategies?
12. This is a comprehensive question based on information presented throughout
the video:
What are the various ways in which coral reefs provide a necessary foundation
for all the ecological interactions that exist in shallow tropical waters?
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