Ecological Relationship

Pseudoscorpions often hitch rides on the backs of large beetles or true bugs. What is the ecological relationship?

• Mutualism
• Commensalism
• Parasitism
• Cooperation

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What term best describes the grasshopper?

• Herbivore
• Predator-prey
• Competition
• Producer

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Barnacles sometimes live on the outside surface of other larger shelled organisms without causing any harm. What is the ecological relationship?

• Mutualism
• Parasitism
• Commensalism
• Predator-Prey

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Cows and pronghorn both eat the same types of food in areas of Utah. What is the ecological relationship?

• Cooperation
• Parasitism
• Commensalism
• Competition

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Ants protect soft bodied aphids and in return the aphids feed the ants a sugary drink. What is the ecological relationship?

• Cooperation
• Parasitism
• Commensalism
• Mutualism

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The tiny organism that cause harm on the host body. 

• host
•   parasites
•  predator
•  prey 

It is a kind of relationship where both living organisms benefit from each other. 

• commensalism
• mutualism
• parasitism
• predation 

A mosquito feeds off of the blood of different organisms. This usually causes discomfort to the organism and sometimes disease and death. What ecological relationship is it?

• Commensalism
• Mutualism
• Parasitism
• Predation

What relationship between trees in the forest where taller trees are capable of absorbing more sunlight, making it less accessible to the shorter tree species that are shaded by them. 

• predation
• Commensalism
• Intraspecific competition
• Interspecific competition

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Which of the following is characteristic of predation? 

• One organism kills and consumes another.
• One organism lives in or on another and benefits.
• Two organisms live together and neither is harmed.
• Two organisms nourish each other; both benefit.

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