Symbiotic Relationships

When a fruit bat eats the fruit from a fig tree, it eats the seeds as well. These seeds are dispersed through the bats droppings.

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Competiton

• Mutualism

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A one-sided relationship where one of the organisms benefits greatly from the symbiosis. The other is not helped, but it is not harmed or damaged from the relationship either.

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Competiton

• Commensalism

A relationship in which organisms compete for resources.

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Competiton

• Predation

Tapeworms live in the small intestines of animals. They eat the animal’s partially digested food, which deprives the host of some food and nourishment.

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Predation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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What form of symbiosis is this?

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Competition

What form of symbiosis is this?

• Competiton

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

Head lice live on small amounts of blood in the scalp. The host human feels itchiness in their hair as the lice bite and move around.

• Competiton

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

What form of symbiosis is this?

• Competiton

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

What form of symbiosis is this?

• Parasitism

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

What form of symbiosis is this? (The gazelle is unbothered)

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Competiton

• Commensalism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2