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WorksheetsEcological/Symbiotic Relationships
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
What is the species eaten in a predation called?
Predator
Prey
Individual
Organism
Which type of relationship helps regulate the population?
Mutualism
Predator Prey
Commensalism
Parasitism
Ostriches and gazelles feed next to each other and watch for predators, alerting each other to danger. Since the visual abilities of the two species are different, they each can identify threats the other animal would not as readily see. This is an example of -
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Predation
Oxpeckers are a type of small bird that land on zebras and eat ticks and other parasites that live on the zebra’s skin. The oxpeckers get food and the zebras get pests removed. This is an example of -
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Predation
Ticks live on dogs and feed off the dog’s blood. They may also infect the dog with a parasite that can cause the dog to become quite sick. Dogs also are sometimes found to be very tired because a large volume of their blood has been drained. This is an example of -
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Predation
Wrasse fish feed on the parasites found on the black sea bass's body (usually in the mouth). This is like dental floss for the fish and both species benefit. This is an example of which type of symbiosis?
commensalism
predation
parasitism
mutualism
What may happen if the grasshoppers were removed from the food web pictured?
The rabbit population in the habitat would increase.
The micer population would decrease because its the only food for the owls.
The grass population would decrease because all the birds are eating it.
Foxes would dies due to no food source.
Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the spruce tree to the detriment (ill effect) of the spruce. This is an example of which type of symbiosis?
parasitism
commensalism
mutualism
predation
Based on the graph, what happens to the amount of kelp as sea otter numbers decrease?
As the sea otter population decreases, kelp increases.
As the sea otter population decreases, kelp decreases.
As the sea otter population decreases, kelp doesn't change.
What is a keystone species?
A species that helps to hold an ecosystem together
A species that lives in or around rocks
Keys and stones have nothing to do with ecology
A keystone isn't a living thing, it's just a stone
The purple sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) supports biodiversity in tidepools and is therefore a(n)...
invasive species
keystone species
native species
symbiotic species
