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

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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

• commensalism
• Mutualism
• parasitism

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NGSS.3-LS2-1

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

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

The black bear has a tick on it's back

• parasitism
• mutualism
• commensalism

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

• mutualism
• commensalism
• parasitism
• competition

What is symbiosis?

• The relatonship between plants and the sun

• the relationship between plants and their habitat

• the relationshop between two organism in which at least 1 benefits from the relationship

• the relationship between precipitation and animals in an ecosystem

A tapeworm lives inside an animal and eats the food that the animal digests. What type of symbiosis is this?

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

• symbiosis

How are commensalism and mutualism alike?

• Neither of them is harmful to the plants and animals involved.

• They both have hosts.

• They only occur between two animals

• They only occur between a plant and an animal

Which of the following is an example of commensalism?

• Egyptian plovers and crocodiles

• flowers growing up a tree.

• fleas on a dog

• bees and flowers