Ecological Relationships

A pilot fish usually follows behind sharks to pick up food scraps that they leave behind. The fish gets food and the shark is unaffected. What is the relationship between the shark and pilot fish?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

A clownfish uses a sea anemone as a safe place to live. While living there, the clownfish lures in food for the anemone. What is the relationship between the clownfish and sea anemone?

• Predator-Prey
• Commensalism
• Mutualism
• Parasitism

When predator numbers decrease, prey numbers ____________ because fewer of them are being consumed.

• decrease
• increase
• stay the same
• divide in half

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A mongoose eating ticks off a warthog, or a starling eating ticks off a cow are examples of what type of symbiotic relationship?

• Cooperation

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

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A feeding relationship where one organism hunts and one is hunted, such as a Lynx hunting a snowshoe hare, is known as:

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Predator-Prey

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A mosquito feeds off of the blood of different organisms. This usually causes discomfort to the organism and sometimes disease and death. This is an example of:

• Parasitism
• Decomposition
• Commensalism
• Mutualism

When they land in a flower, the bees get some pollen on their hairy bodies, and when they land in the next flower, some of the pollen from the first one rubs off, pollinating the plant. What is the relationship between the bees and flowers?

• Predator-Prey

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Decomposition

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A relationship between two organisms where one benefits while the other is harmed is known as what?

• Decomposition

• Consummerism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

Organisms of two species using the same limited resource and having a negative impact on one another, such as hyenas and lions both hunting zebra, represent what type of relationship?

• commensalism

• predator-prey

• mutualism

• competition

A symbiotic relationship between two species in which one benefits and the other is unaffected, such as ants living in a tree, or birds nesting in a tree, is known as:

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• community