Symbiosis

What is symbiosis?

• The act of 2 different organisms living together

• The act of 2 different organisms living apart

• Acting

• Being the same

What is commensalism?

• One organism is harmed but other one benefits

• One organism is unaffected but the other benefits

• Both organisms are harmed

The anemone fish live in the anemone. The anemone protects the fish and the fish drops food scraps that the anemone can eat. What kind of symbiosis is this?

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Predation

• Competition

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A remora attaches itself to a shark. It eats what the shark catches and goes where the shark swims. The shark doesn't get anything. What type of symbiosis is this?

• Commensalism

• Population

• Parasitism

• Mututalism

You get lice. They live on your head and drink blood while you itch and can infest others. What type of symbiosis is this?

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Species

• Competition

A bird makes a nest in a tree. The bird gets a house, but the tree is unharmed. What type of symbiosis is this?

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

A bee and a flower work together to benefit each other. This is an example of a ______. The bee helps the flower by pollinating it and the flower helps the bee by providing it with nectar.

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Mututalism

Hookworms enter the human body by burrowing into the skin of the feet. They go to the small intestine where they attach to the walls and begin to drink the person's blood and weaken them. What type of symbiosis is this?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This relationship neither harms nor benefits the whales. 

• parasitism
• commensalism
• mutualism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Oxpeckers feed on the ticks found on a rhinoceros. The oxpeckers get a meal and the rhinoceros is helped by the removal of the ticks. What type of symbiosis is this?

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism