Interactions

The shark and remora fish have a __________________ relationship.  The remora fish benefits by attaching itself to a shark and eating scraps and pieces of fish that the shark does not eat.  The shark is not harmed and does not benefit from the remora fish.

• predator and prey

• commensalism

• parasitism

• coevolution

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a relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other

• competition

• predator/prey

• symbiosis

What does symbiosis mean?

• Living separately, no relationship between 2 species

• Living together, close relationship between 2 species

• Living separately, long distance relationship between 2 species

• When one species kills and eats another

A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is hurt or harmed...

• Mutualism

• Competition

• Parasitsm

• Commensalism

A tapeworm lives in the intestine of a cat absorbing nutrients through its skin. A tapeworm and a cat have this type of relationship.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• competition

When a mosquito bites you, you are the __________ and the mosquito is the  ____________.

• host, hostess

• parasite, host

• host, parasite

• prey, predator

Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This neither harms nor benefits the whales.  What kind of relationship is this?

• Mutualism 

• Parasitism 

• Commensalism 

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When one organism is helped and has no effect on the other, the relationship is called __________.

• competition

• commensalism

• mutualism

• adaptation

In this picture, the lion is the __________________

• predator

• prey

The interaction of organisms in an ecosystem is called ___________.

• predator-prey

• adaptation

• symbiosis

• ecology

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