Community Relationships

What is the relationship between a pig, who has lots of digested food in the intestine (all nutrients have not been absorbed) and a tapeworm who needs to eat food that is digested already? 

• Parasitism
• Mutualism
• Commensalism
• Predator/Prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the relationship between a gumboot chiton, who has large openings under their gills and a scale worm, who needs an animal to live in for protection and water flow? 

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism
• predator/prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the relationship between zooxanthellae, algae who produces extra nutrients and need a hard place to live for protection and a coral reef, which provides a hard place to live and needs extra nutrients to grow faster? 

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism
• predator/prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the relationship between the nile crocodile, who has leeches in its mouth that it needs to remove and an egyptian plover, a bird who eats leeches? 

• parasititim
• mutualism
• commensalism
• predator/prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the relationship between the bird and the fish? 

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism
• predator/prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the relationship between the cheetah and the gazelle? 

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism
• predator/prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the relationship between the bee and the flower? 

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism
• predator/prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the relationship between a barnacle, who needs a hard, flat open surface to attach to and live on and a scallop, which has a hard flat shell? 

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism
• predator/prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the relationship between the tick and the human?

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism
• predator/prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the relationship between a cow, who graze in a herd in the open fields and a cattle egret, who eats insects that are stirred up by the large herd animals? 

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism
• predator/prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2