WorksheetsSymbiosis
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 37mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Cattle egrets forage (feed) in fields among cattle. The egret gets easy access to flying insects stirred up by the cattle, and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.
a)
mutualism
b)
commensalism
c)
competition
d)
parasitism
2.
A tapeworm and a cat have this type of relationship.
a)
mutualism
b)
parasitism
c)
commensalism
d)
competition
3.
What type of symbiosis? Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers. The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.
a)
commensalism
b)
mutualism
c)
parasitism
d)
predation
4.
What type of symbiosis? Skunks often live in burrows that have been dug and abandoned by woodchucks.
a)
commensalism
b)
mutualism
c)
parasitism
d)
predation
5.
Which symbols best describe parasitism?
a)
+,+
b)
+,-
c)
+,0
d)
-,0
6.
Aphids are tiny insects that live on and eat the leaves of plants, removing vital nutrients from the plants.
a)
Predation
b)
Parasitism
c)
Commensalism
d)
Mutualism
7.
Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that often feed on parasites that infest impala. This is an example of _______.
a)
commensalism
b)
mutualism
c)
neutralism
d)
competition
8.
A relationship in which two species live closely together.
a)
resource
b)
mutualism
c)
succession
d)
symbiosis
9.
What type of symbiosis is this?
*Hermit crabs find shells left by snails that have died and move in.
* Snails die and leave behind their shells.
*Hermit crabs find shells left by snails that have died and move in.
* Snails die and leave behind their shells.
a)
commensalism
b)
mutualism
c)
parasitism
d)
predation
10.
Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This neither harms nor benefits the whales. What kind of relationship is this?
a)
Mutualism
b)
Parasitism
c)
Commensalism
11.
A relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit.
a)
Mutualism
b)
Competition
c)
Parasitsm
d)
Commensalism
12.
A tick and a dog have this type of relationship.
a)
mutualism
b)
commensalism
c)
neutralism
d)
parasitism
13.
A frog eats a fly. The frog and fly are demonstrating ________.
a)
mutualism
b)
competition
c)
predator/prey
d)
parasitism
14.
When a mosquito bites you, you are the __________ and the mosquito is the ____________.
a)
host, hostess
b)
parasite, host
c)
host, parasite
d)
prey, predator
15.
a)
Parasitism
b)
Mutualism
c)
Commensalism
d)
Predation
16.
A bird makes a nest in a tree. The bird gets a house, but the tree is unharmed.
a)
Commensalism
b)
Mutualism
c)
Parasitism
17.
Two organisms both benefit from the relationship
a)
Commensalism
b)
Mutualism
c)
Parasitism
18.
A squirrel hides his acorns from the chipmunks for the winter.
a)
commensalism
b)
parasitism
c)
competition
d)
mutualism
19.
Birds eat the flies off of a rhino's back in the savannah
a)
commensalism
b)
Mutualism
c)
parasitism
20.
Mockingbirds will push the eggs out of a blue bird's nest and use the nest for it's own babies
a)
parasitism
b)
parasitism
c)
mutualism
21.
A bear eats fish out of the river
a)
mutualism
b)
parasitism
c)
predator / prey
22.
The black bear has a tick on it's back
a)
parasitism
b)
mutualism
c)
commensalism
23.
a squirrel eats the bird seed out of the bird feeder
a)
mutualism
b)
parasitism
parasitism
parasitism
c)
commensalism
competition
competition
d)
competition
commensalism
commensalism
24.
A fish will eat the left over food scraps from the shark's meal
a)
mutualism
b)
commensalism
c)
parasitism
d)
competition
25.
Coyotes and Foxes both live in Maryland and both eat rabbits and mice
a)
Parasitism
b)
Commensalism
c)
Mutualism
d)
Competition
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