Interactions and Environment Review

This interaction between organisms happens when they try to use the same limited resources in an ecosystem.

• Competition

• Cooperation

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

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Which of the following is a way that competition can occur.

• Two male turkeys show off their enormous tail feathers to impress female turkeys.

• A mosquito bites a human and drinks their blood.

• Barnacles live on whales so that they can have access to food.

• A lion chases away a group of hyenas so that it can eat the gazelle they just killed.

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In this interaction, two organisms that are often of the same species work together to achieve a common goal and increase their chances of survival.

• Cooperation

• Competition

• Commensalism

• Predation

Which of the following describes an example of cooperation?

• A group of elephants works together to raise an baby elephant.

• Two male wolves fight each other for the right to lead the pack and mate with the females.

• A leopard hunts and kills a zebra.

• A bee drinks the nectar from a flower. At the same time, it carries the flower's pollen to other flowers.

In this interaction, one organism consumes another organism for food.

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Competition

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In a predatory relationship, this is the animal that consumes other organisms.

• Predator

• Prey

• Host

• Autotroph

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In a predatory relationship, this is the organism that is consumed by other organisms.

• Prey

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Predator

This is a group of relationships that are very close and more or less permanent.

• Symbiosis

• Mutualism

• Interactions

• Parasitism

These are the forms of symbiosis.

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

• cooperation

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This is a form of symbiosis where both organisms benefit.

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Cooperation