Ecology

What does biotic mean?

• Living
• Non living
• Man made

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A tick and a dog have this type of relationship.

• mutualism
• commensalism
• neutralism
• parasitism

Cattle egrets are birds that forage in fields among cattle. The egrets get easy access to food and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

• mutualism
• commensalism
• competition
• parasitism

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Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that feed on parasites found on an impala. The impala gets rid of parasites and the red-billed oxpeckers get a yummy dinner. This is an example of _______.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• neutralism
• competition

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A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unharmed.

• Mutualism

• Competition

• Parasitsm

• Commensalism

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

• Mutualsim 
• Parasitism 
• Commensalism 

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Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the spruce tree to the tree's detriment (harm). 

• Mutualsim 
• Parasitism 
• Commensalism 

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Silverfish live and hunt with army ants. They share the prey. They neither help nor harm the ants.

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Predation

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a relationship that occurs when two or more organims of the same species need the same resource at the same time

• competition
• symbiosis
• predation

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Example of a consumer

• worm
• bacteria
• mushroom
• hawk

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