Interpret Relationships Check

Ticks feed off a dog's blood.

• Predation

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Interspecific Competition

A lichen is a composite organism made of fungi and algae. The algae provide food for the fungi, and the fungi provide a habitat for the algae.

• Mutualism

• Interspecific Competition

• Commensalism

• Predation

The lichen benefits from gaining more exposure to sunlight, but they do not harm or benefit the tree.

• Predation

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

Bats eat fruits and disperse seeds for cacti.

• Commensalism

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

The mites eat dead skin around your eyelashes.

YOU have them and didn’t even know they were there!

• Interspecific Competition

• Predation

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

Consider this, a single ladybug may eat as many as 5,000 aphids in its lifetime. Aphids are sap-sucking insects that can destroy a garden. Ladybugs love to eat harmful garden pests, mainly aphids, but they will also eat other small, soft-bodied insect larvae, insect eggs, and mites.

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Predation

• Mutualism

Two kangaroos fight over a mate.

• Mutualism

• Interspecific Competition

• Intraspecific Competition

• Commensalism

Various species must share water from a pond.

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Interspecific Competition

• Intraspecific Competition