Symbiosis

Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. The whales are not harmed.

• mututalism

• commensalism

• parasitism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The stork uses its saw-like bill to cut up the dead animals it eats. As a result, the dead animal's carcass is accessible to some bees for food an egg laying.

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Yucca flowers are pollinated by yucca moths. The moths lay their eggs in the flowers where the larvae hatch and eat some of the developing seeds. Both species benefit.

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

Ticks feed on the deer's blood to the deer's detrminent. (Ticks are benefitted, deer is harmed).

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Ostriches and gazelles feed next to each other. They both watch for predators and alert each other to danger. Since the visual abilities of the two species are different, they each can identify the threats the other animal would not see easily.

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Hermit crabs live in shells made and then abandoned by snails

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Silverfish live and hunt with army ants. They share the prey.

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Oxpeckers feed on the ticks found on rhinos.

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Remora's (a type of fish) attach themselves to a shark's body. They then feed off the leftover food scraps left behind from the shark's meal.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Ants protect the acacia tree and the acacia tree provides food for the ants.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2