Symbiosis Quiz

Some shrimp capture food from inside the tentacles of giant sea anemones, the sea anemones don't even notice.

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Predator/Prey

A pearlfish lives inside the digestive tract of a sea cucumber and it comes out at night to feed on smaller fish. The sea cucumber is not helped or harmed, but the pearlfish gets a safe place to live.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Predator/Prey

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A cymothoid uses its hooks to attach itself to the inside of the mouth of a snapper fish and it cuts the blood vessels in its tongue causing it to dissolve. The cymothoid stays there eating on blood & stray pieces of food from the fish.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Predator/Prey

A boxer crab carries small sea anemones on its claws. When a predator approaches it waves the stinging tentacles of the anemones to scare off the predator. In return the sea anemones benefit from eating the small particles of food dropped by the crab.

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Predator/Prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

An alpheid shrimp digs a burrow in the sand and shares it with a goby fish, who watches for predators. If a predator approaches the goby fish darts back in the burrow and the shrimp retreats further inside. The goby fish gets a place to live and the shrimp knows when predators are near.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Predator/Prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Barnacles attach themselves to sea turtles. As the the sea turtle travels, the barnacles get access to food in nutrient rich waters. The turtle neither benefits nor is harmed by the barnacles.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasistism

• Predator/Prey

A tapeworm needs to eat food that is already digested so it lives in the intestines of a dog and steals nutrients from it. As a result the dog is weakened.

• Mutualism

• Parasistism

• Commensalism

• Predator/Prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Tube worms live in deep sea vents and have no digestive tract. It relies on bacteria that live inside the tissues to break down food for them. The bacteria get a place to live and nutrients from the tube worm in return.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Predator/Prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Insects form a nursery call a gall on the leaves of an oak tree. The insects have a safe place to develop and the tree is unaffected.

• Mutualism

• 
  Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Predator/Prey

A honeybee gets nectar from a flower and picks up pollen during the process. When it flys to the next flower it transfers some of the pollen, helping the flower reproduce.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Predator/Prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4