Predator & Prey
Discuss and answer the following questions with other students from your group.
What was your role? How did you feel during the simulation? What were the threats to your
survival (or were you the threat)? Did you survive?
Calculate the survival rates and percentages of each energy role.
Original
number of
organisms
Predict:
number of
survivors
Actual:
Number
of
survivors
Ratio: survivors to
original number
of organism
Percent of
survivors
Herbivores
Omnivores
Carnivores
Explain in detail the strategies you used to acquire your basic needs and avoid being eaten
during the simulation. If you had a role other than an animal, what strategies did you use
during the simulation? Include both successful and unsuccessful strategies in your answer.
Successful Strategies
Do organisms do this in real life?
Last updated 8/2014
Limiting Factors
In the chart below, give examples of adaptation or strategies the organisms use to help them
obtain their basic needs. (Example: a rabbit stands still to avoid being notices by a
predator.)
Animal
Behavioral
Adaptations
Structural
Adaptations
Cougar (carnivore)
Raccoon (omnivore)
Deer (herbivore)
Rabbit (herbivore)
What do you think would happen if the simulation was changed so that
there were many more carnivores and omnivores than herbivores?
What could other limiting factors be for this simulation?
Last updated 8/2014