symbiotic realtionships

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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What type of symbiosis?

*Snapping Shrimp have poor eye sight 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

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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

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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

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?

*•Kudzu vines grow by climbing, and wrapping around trees.

*•Kundzu covered trees die as they are smothered and break under the weight of the growing Kudzu vines.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• predation

What type of symbiosis?
*Hermit crabs find shells left by snails that have died and move in.
*  Snails die and leave behind their shells.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

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What type of symbiosis?
*Hookworms can enter the body, live off of the host’s blood.
*The host can suffer from blood loss, anemia and iron deficiency. 

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

Which of the following is NOT considered to be a symbiotic relationship?

• A mother bear caring for her cub
• Worms living in a cow’s intestine
• A bacterial infection
• A viral attack on your immune system

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When a mosquito bites you, you are the __________ and the mosquito is the  ____________.

• host, hostess
• parasite, host
• host, parasite
• prey, predator