LS.8 Community Interactions

A lion eating a zebra is an example of:

• predation

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

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A tick living on the body of a deer

• predation

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

A bee eating the flower's nectar and picking up the flower's pollen

• predation

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

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What is an ecological community?

• two or more of the same species living in an area

• all of the abiotic and biotic factors in an area

• one single organism in an ecosystem

• all of the living parts of an ecosystem

In an ecosystem with owls and mice, what would happen if the mouse population increased?

• the owl population would not be affected

• the owl population would increase

• the owl population would decrease

• it is impossible to tell

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Due to limited resources, what may happen to the buffalo in this picture?

• one would become a predator and eat the other buffalo

• there would be mutualism and they would work together to find more water

• they would find something else to prey upon and get water from the prey

• competition would result in some getting enough water and others not getting enough water

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What is symbiosis?

• two of the same or two different species trying to get the same resource

• two different species living together and at least one species benefits

• one species hunting, killing, and eating another species

• a trait that helps an organism survive in its habitat

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A bird benefits from a tree to build its home, and the tree is not harmed. This is an example of

• competition.

• parasitism.

• mutualism.

• commensalism.

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Which describes this picture

• the bobcat is the parasite, the rabbit is the host

• the bobcat is the prey, the rabbit is the predator

• the bobcat is the host, the rabbit is the parasite

• the bobcat is the predator, the rabbit is the prey

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To hunt, capture, kill, and eat another organism 

• predation
• parasitism
• herbivory
• exclusion

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