Practice Quiz Ecology Lecture Notes Part 7

This picture illustrates a type of symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits by harming the other.

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

• nonalism

This picture represents a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit.

• competition

• Mutualism

• nitrogen fixation

• energy pyramid

A relationship between two in which one species (predator) feeds on the other species (prey), is known as?

• chemosynthesis

• predation

• cellular respiration

• commensalism

In the woods, there are ducks and mice. They both compete for grasshoppers as the only source of food in that area at that time. The ducks out compete the mice and the mice end up dying. This is an example of:

• Neutralism

• Commensalism

• The competitive exclusion principle

• Mutualism

Barnacles are animals that cannot move. In order to get food, they attach to whales and catch any floating plankton in the water. The whale is neither helped nor harmed in the interaction. What type of symbiosis is this?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Neutralism

In the wild, some alligators gets their teeth cleaned by birds. The birds gets their food from the alligators' teeth.

What type of symbiosis is this?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Neutralism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is a general term to express the relationship in which two species live closely together in different ways?

• resource

• mutualism

• succession

• symbiosis