Types of Interactions

What word describes the following description?

A flea feeds on the blood of the mouse.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• symbiosis

What word describes the following description?

The plover flies into the mouth of a crocodile and feeds on decaying meat. The crocodile gets its teeth clean and the plover gets a meal.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• symbiosis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What word describes the following description?

The spider builds a web on the tree so it has a home. It does not harm the tree.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• symbiosis

What word describes the following description?

The clown fish lives in a sea anemone, dropping food that the sea anemone then eats.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• symbiosis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A mite lives in the base of the eyelashes of people who use mascara. It feeds on the mascara; it does not seem to harm people. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• predation

The flower of the yucca plant provides the only location where the yucca moth can lay her eggs. In the process, the moth pollinates the yucca flower. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• predation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

What symbols are used to represent mutualism.

• + +

• + -

• + o

What word describes the following description?

Birds feed on the ticks found on a rhino. What is the relationship between the tick and the rhino?

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• symbiosis

In mutualism, both species are ​ (a)   , whereas in competition both species are ​ (b)   .

• benefited

• harmed

• eaten

• giving energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Interaction among individuals in an ecosystem that need the same common resource.

• Food Chain

• Competition

• Organism

• Parasitism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2