Symbiosis

Pseudoscorpions often hitch rides on the backs of large beetles or true bugs. What is the ecological relationship?

• Mutualism
• Commensalism
• Parasitism
• Cooperation

Barnacles sometimes live on the outside surface of other larger shelled organisms without causing any harm. What is the ecological relationship?

• Mutualism
• Parasitism
• Commensalism
• Predator-Prey

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Ants protect soft bodied aphids and in return the aphids feed the ants a sugary drink. What is the ecological relationship?

• Cooperation
• Parasitism
• Commensalism
• Mutualism

Cattle egrets forage (feed) in fields among cattle. The egret gets easy access to flying insects stirred up by the cattle, and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

• mutualism
• commensalism
• competition
• parasitism

A tapeworm and a cat have this type of relationship.

• mutualism
• parasitism
• commensalism
• competition

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

• commensalism
• mutualism
• neutralism
• competition

Cuckoo and Warbler: A cuckoo may lay its eggs in a warbler’s nest. The cuckoo’s young will displace the warbler’s young, and the warbler will raise the cuckoo’s young.

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Predation

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a relationship that occurs when two or more organims of the same species need the same resource at the same time

• competition
• symbiosis
• predation

 The stork uses it saw-like bill to cut up the dead animals it eats. As a result, the dead animal carcass is accessible to some bees for food and egg laying. The relationship neither harms nor benefits the stork.

• parasitism
• commensalism
• mutualism

Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from a spruce tree. The spruce tree is harmed. 

• parasitism
• commensalism
• mutualism

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