Animal Relationships

Remember your Vocabulary!

A type of animal relationship that helps both organisms involved!

• Mutualism (Friends!)

• Parasitism (Enemies!)

• Commensalism (Strangers!)

Remember your Vocabulary!

A type of animal relationship that helps one organism while it neither helps nor hurts the other organism!

• Mutualism (Friends!)

• Parasitism (Enemies!)

• Commensalism (Strangers!)

A type of animal relationship that hurts one organism and benefits the other!

• Mutualism (Friends!)

• Parasitism (Enemies!)

• Commensalism (Strangers!)

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Remember your Vocabulary!

A close relationship between two different kinds of organisms or living things!

• Organism

• Symbiosis

• Behavior

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Looking at the Colorado mountain habitat picture, write one way that an animal is depending on a plant.

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Looking at the Colorado mountain habitat picture, write one way that a plant is depending on an animal.

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What type of symbiotic relationship benefits both organisms involved?

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Predation

In a parasitic relationship, which organism benefits?

• Host

• Parasite

• Both

• Neither

Which of the following is an example of commensalism?

• A bee pollinating a flower

• A tapeworm in a human intestine

• Barnacles on a whale

• A lion hunting a zebra

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What is the primary benefit of mutualistic relationships in ecosystems?

• Increased competition

• Resource sharing

• Habitat destruction

• Predator-prey balance

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