Understanding Interspecific Relationships

What is the primary reason living beings establish relationships with each other?

• To avoid predators

• To increase their population

• To maintain ecosystem balance

• To compete for resources

Which relationship is characterized by one organism eating another, resulting in the latter's death?

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Symbiosis

Which type of interspecific relationship involves one organism benefiting at the expense of another?

• Mutualism

• Symbiosis

• Predation

• Parasitism

What is an example of mutualism mentioned in the video?

• A bear eating salmon

• Fungus and algae forming Lykens

• A bird eating parasites off an ox

• A tick biting a human

In which relationship do both species benefit, but neither can survive without the other?

• Predation

• Parasitism

• Symbiosis

• Mutualism