Competition Cooperation and Animal Interactions

Rabbits and sheep both graze on shrubs, grasses, and other plants.  After an increase of rabbits, the sheep and rabbits will be in (a)   for food.

• Competition
• Predation
• Mutualism
• Parasitism

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Sloths and monkeys share the same tropical habitat. Deforestation is occurring limiting the space for these two species. What will now occur between the two species?

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Cooperation

• Competition

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Which describes an interaction in which organisms work together so that all organisms in the group benefit?

• cooperation

• parasitism

• commensalism

• competition

Corn plants and milkweed plants grow in the same area. Over several years, the milkweed plants have taken over the field and the corn plants no longer have space to grow. This best demonstrates which type of an interaction between the plants?

• cooperation

• parasitism

• commensalism

• competition

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(a)   is when animals work together for the benefit of the group

• Cooperation
• Conflict
• Selfishness
• Predation

Competition is when (a)  

• animals fight for resources, land, or mates
• animals work together for the benefit of all
• one animal eats the other

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Predator/prey is when (a)  

• animals fight
• animals work together for the benefit of all
• one animal tries to eat the other

Select all that apply: Animals will compete over

• territory (land)

• resources (food, water)

• mates

• nothing. They always work together.

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Bucks in rut are (a)   for a mate

• cooperating
• parasiting
• commencing
• competing

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What are the characteristics of all living things?

• All living things get and use food, move, grow, reproduce, and respond to their environment.
• All living things have brain
• All living thing move to one place to another
• All living things can talk

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