Symbiosis

Two organisms both benefit from the relationship

• Commensalism
• Mutualism
• Parasitism

A bird makes a nest in a tree.  The bird gets a house, but the tree is unharmed.

• Commensalism
• Mutualism
• Parasitism

A squirrel hides his acorns from the chipmunks for the winter.

• commensalism
• parasitism
• competition
• mutualism

Birds eat the flies off of a rhino's back in the savannah

• commensalism
• Mutualism
• parasitism

Mockingbirds will push the eggs out of a blue bird's nest and use the nest for it's own babies

• parasitism
• parasitism
• mutualism

A bear eats fish out of the river

• mutualism
• parasitism
• predator / prey

The black bear has a tick on it's back

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

a squirrel eats the bird seed out of the bird feeder

• mutualism
• parasitism
  parasitism
• commensalism
  competition
• competition
  commensalism

A fish will eat the left over food scraps from the shark's meal

• mutualism
• commensalism
• parasitism
• competition

Coyotes and Foxes both live in Maryland and both eat rabbits and mice

• Parasitism
• Commensalism
• Mutualism
• Competition

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2