Symbiosis

Predict the type of relationship between the ant and the ant-lion.

• Predator-Prey

• Mutalistic

• Commensalistic

• Parasitic

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When the population of ants increases, what would you predict the population of the ant-lion would do?

• Decrease

• Increase, because there is more food available to them. 

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Describe the flow of energy between the ant and antlion.

• The energy flows from the ant to the antlion

• The energy flows from the antlion to the ant

• There is no energy being exchanged

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If the ant-lion (predator) population becomes larger than the ant (prey) population what do you think would happen to the population of the ant-lion?

• The population of ant-lion would also decrease due to a lack of food. 

• The population of ant-lion would increase because they can just wait until more ants are born.

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True or false: Predators of one species can never be prey to another species. 

• True

• False

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When an organism fights with another organism over a limited resource it is called?

• competition

• predator-prey relationship

• carrying capacity

• symbiosis

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Another example of a parasitic relationship would be.....

• A leech attaching itself to your leg and feeding off of your blood. 

• A barnacle attaching itself to a whale to move from place to place (without harming the whale)

• A Bird eating insects off the back of a cow in a field. 

In mutualism, both organisms in the relationship

• Benefit

• Are harmed

• Are not effected

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In commensalistic relationships one organism benefits and the other organism..... 

• are neither helped nor harmed (are unaffected)

• is also benefited

• is harmed

Which is not one of the 3 forms of symbiosis?

• competition

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism