Ecological Relationships

What type of symbiosis?
  * Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers.
 * Flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What type of symbiosis?
*Snapping Shrimp have poor and depend on their goby fish roommate to give the danger signal when predators come and guide them
back home if they wander too far.   
*  Goby fish who don't have a place to hide are quickly eaten. They find a Snapping Shrimp roommate who digs a hole for both to live in.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What type of symbiosis?
*The tick lives on dog and feeds on its blood and tissue.
*  The dog gets skin irritation and can pick up diseases carried by tick.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predfation

What type of symbiosis?
*  The Red-Chested cuckoo birds find an unattended robin nest, push out the robin eggs, and lay their eggs in the robin’s nest, and leave.
* Robin babies die and robin parents feed  and take care of the cuckoo babies.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What type of symbiosis?
*Mycorrhizal fungi invade and live in or among roots cells of many plants. The plant provides nutrients to the fungi.
*The Mycorrhizal fungi help the host plant absorb inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus from the soil. Some mycorrhizal  fungi also secrete antibiotics which may help protect their host from invasion by parasitic fungi and bacteria.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

What type of symbiosis?
* Mycorrhizal fungi invade and live in or among roots cells of many plants. The plant provides nutrients to the fungi.
*  The Mycorrhizal fungi help the host plant absorb inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus from the soil. Some mycorrhizal  fungi also secrete antibiotics which may help protect their host from invasion by parasitic fungi and bacteria.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

What type of symbiosis?
*Remora use suckers to attach temporarily to large marine animals such as sharks, manta rays, whales, turtles, or large fish.
*The shark provides free transportation, protection, and dropped food and feces which the remora feeds on. The host is not injured.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What type of symbiosis?
*Fungi form lichens by living in a close relationship with an algae. The fungus provides a protective home for the algae,  and gathers mineral nutrients from rainwater and from dissolving the rock underneath.
*The algae gathers energy from the sun using photosynthesis. Both organisms share their nutrients with each other. 

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What type of symbiosis?
*Honeyguide birds find a bee hive, then chatter loudly to attract the Honey badger. They fly toward the hive making sure the badger is following. 
*Upon arrival at the bee hive, the badger tears open the hive and feasts on the honey. Then the Honeyguide bird feeds on the remaining wax and larvae.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What type of symbiosis?
*  Skunk Cabbage plants attract flies in cool weather by making heat and provide food to the flies that come. 
*  Flies move from one Skunk Cabbage plant to the next feeding and transferring pollen as they go.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasititsm
• predation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4