Symbiotic Relationships Quiz

The cleaner wrasse, a small marine fish, periodically cleans harmful parasites from the mouth and body of the moray eel. The moray, in turn, protects the wrasse from larger predators and provides it with a constant supply of food. This is an example of what type of relationship?

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Competition

• Commensalism

Symbiotic relationships are an important component of life. Which of the following relationships are most like the relationship between fleas and a dog?

• Honeybees and a flower

• Shark and a remora fish

• Sea anemones and clownfish

• Athlete’s-foot fungus and a human

Mangrove trees are common to the Florida Everglades. The tree roots serve as a place for freshwater oysters to attach when the tide is high. The oysters are protected from predators when attached to the roots underwater. The oysters do not harm the trees nor do they provide any benefit to the trees. Which of the following relationships is most similar to the relationship between the mangrove trees and the oysters?

• African ants living in acacia trees feed on leaf-eating insects found on the tree.

• Spider crabs are camouflaged by the green-brown algae growing on their shells.

• A whale is unaffected by the attached remora fish feeding on the whale’s leftover food.

• Bees fly from one flowering plant to another gathering nectar and pollinating the flowers.

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Which of the following relationships is most like the predator-prey relationship?

• Symbiosis

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

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The organism that is HARMED in parasitism is called the…

• Host

• Predator

• Pest

• Parasite

As buffalo walk through the grass, insects become active and are seen and eaten by cowbirds. This is an example of what kind of symbiotic relationship?

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Symbiosis

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A cuckoo bird lays its eggs in a warbler’s nest. The cuckoo’s young will push the warbler’s babies out of the nest and will be raised by the warbler. This is an example of…

• Commensalism

• Symbiosis

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

Match the following

• Commensalism

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• Mutualism

• 
• Parasitism

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A boxer crab carries a pair of small anemones in its chelipeds, or claws. When approached by a predator, the crab waves the stinging tentacles of the anemones to deter the predator. The anemones benefit from the small particles of food dropped by the crab during feeding. 

• Commensalism
• Mutualism
• Parasitism

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Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that often feed on parasites that infest impala. This is an example of _______.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• predation

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