Student Taught

A tick sucks blood from a dog. In this relationship, the tick is the _____ and the dog is the _______.

• parasite, host

• predator, host

• parasite, prey

• host, parasite

An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

• producer

• consumer

• predator

• prey

Break down and absorb nutrients from decaying organisms

• prey

• ecosystems

• consumers

• decomposers

Organisms that cannot make their own food. They eat other organisms to get energy.

• consumer

• predator

• prey

• omnivore

An organism that can make its own food using sunlight and carbon dioxide.

• biotic man

• producer

• consumer

• Wish I could do this so I wouldn't get hungry!

A tick sucks blood from a dog. In this relationship, the tick is the _____ and the dog is the _______.

• parasite, host

• predator, host

• parasite, prey

• host, parasite

Cattle egrets forage (feed) in fields among cattle. The egret gets easy access to flying insects stirred up by the cattle, and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

• mutualism
• commensalism
• competition
• parasitism

What type of symbiosis?  Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers.  The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation

When two species interact in a way that is beneficial to both species, this is a _______ relationship.

• parasitic

• mutualistic

• commensal

• community

When two species interact in a way that is beneficial to one but harms the other species, this is a _______ relationship.

• parasitic

• mutualistic

• commensal

• community