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WorksheetsSymbiosis
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following shows the symbiotic relationship between the Rodent and the Bird?
a)
Mutualism
b)
Predation
c)
Competition
d)
Commensalism
2.
Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. The whale is unaffected.
a)
commensalism
b)
mutualism
c)
predation
d)
laziness
3.
Honey guide birds alert and direct badgers to bee hives. The badgers then expose the hives and feed on the honey first. Then the honey guide birds eat.
a)
mutualism
b)
commensalism
c)
predation
d)
competition
4.
Remoras attach themselves to a shark's body. They then travel with the shak and feed on the left over scraps from the shark's meals.
a)
commensalism
b)
mutualism
c)
predation
d)
competition
5.
As buffalos walk through grass, insects become active and are seen and eaten by cowbirds.
a)
commensalism
b)
mutualism
c)
competition
d)
predation
6.
A cuckoo may lay its eggs in a warbler's nest. The cuckoo's young will displace (or move) the warbler's young and will be raised by the warbler.
a)
Parasitism
b)
Commensalism
c)
Predation
d)
Competition
7.
Wrasse fish feed on the parasites found on the black sea bass's body.
a)
Mutualism
b)
Commensalism
c)
Predation
d)
Competition
8.
Hermit Crabs live in shells made and then abandoned by snails.
a)
Commensalism
b)
Mutualism
c)
Competition
d)
Parasitism
9.
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.
a)
Mutualism
b)
Commensalism
c)
Parasitism
d)
Competition
10.
Ostriches and Gazelles feed next to each other. They both watch for predators and alert each other to danger. Since the visual abilities of the two species are different, they can each identify threats the other animal would not as readily see.
a)
Parasitism
b)
Commensalism
c)
Mutualism
d)
Competition.
11.
Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the spruce tree to the trees detriment.
a)
Parasitism
b)
Mutualism
c)
Commensalism
d)
Predation
12.
The stork uses its 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.
a)
Commensalism
b)
Mutualism
c)
Parasitism
d)
Predation
13.
The flea feeds on a mouse's blood to the mouse's detriment (or harm).
a)
Predation
b)
Parasitism
c)
Commensalism
d)
Mutualism
14.
Oxpeckers feed on the ticks found on a Rhinoceros.
a)
Mutualism
b)
Predation
c)
Competition
d)
Parasitism
15.
Silverfish live and hunt with army ants. They share the prey.
a)
Commensalism
b)
Predation
c)
Mutualism
d)
Competition
16.
Ticks feed on deer blood to the deer's detriment (or harm).
a)
Commensalism
b)
Predation
c)
Parasitism
d)
Mutualsim
17.
Two male elephants are fighting over a cute little elephant at the watering hole.
a)
Commensalism
b)
Competition
c)
Predation
d)
Mutualism
18.
Two male Giraffes are fighting over the last green leaf of a tree that is dying.
a)
Competition
b)
Mutualsim
c)
Predation
d)
Commensalism
19.
A hawk flies down and scopes of a snake, trying to slither into the ground
a)
Predation
b)
Competition
c)
Hungry
d)
Mutualism
20.
True or false: symbiosis is interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association
a)
True
b)
False
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