Symbiosis Assessment Review

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Parasitism

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(b) Commensalism

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(c) Mutualism

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(d) Predation

• birds nesting in trees
• hawk catching a mouse

• lice infesting a child's scalp

• barnacles attaching to a whale
• clownfish living among sea anemones
• eagle swooping down on a fish

• remoras hitching a ride on sharks
• oxpeckers eating ticks off rhinoceroses
• mycorrhizal fungi assisting plant roots
• tick sucking the blood of a dog

• tapeworm living in a human intestine

• bees pollinating flowers
• epiphytic orchids growing on a tree
• shark attacking a seal

• lion hunting a zebra

• flea feeding on a cat

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This relationship neither harms nor benefits the whales. 

• parasitism
• commensalism
• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Yucca flowers are pollinated by yucca moths. The moths lay their eggs in the flowers where the larvae hatch and eat some of the developing seeds. Both species benefit. 

• parasitism
• commensalism
• mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unharmed...

• Mutualism 
• Competition
• Parasitsm 
• Commensalism 

A relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit. 

• Mutualism 
• Competition
• Parasitsm 
• Commensalism 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Mockingbirds will push the eggs out of a blue bird's nest and use the nest for it's own babies illustrating...

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

• predation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit. 

• Mutualism 
• Competition
• Parasitsm 
• Commensalism 

The close relationship between two different species in an ecosystem

• Biosphere

• Ecology

• Symbiosis

• Environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Organisms that “fight” for limited resources such as food, water or mates. It can be between organisms from different species or between organisms of the same species.

• Predator-Prey

• Mutualism

• Competition

• Parasitism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

A symbiotic relationship where one species obtains food or benefits from another species without benefitting or harming the other.

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Competition

• Parasitism