Organism Relationships

A consumer?

• Makes its own food

• Eats dead plants and animals

• Eats plants and other animals for energy

• Buys toys for kids

A decomposer?

• Eats dead plants or animals and breaks down to put nutrients in the soil

• Eats plants or other animals for food

• Makes its own food

• Machine that gathers trash

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The pine tree is a?

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

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Which is the smallest level of an ecosystem?

• organism

• population

• community

• ecosystem

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 the egrets are there or not.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• competition

• parasitism

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Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers. The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• predation

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Which best describe parasitism?

• Both organisms benefit positively from the relationship

• One organism benefits from the relationship the other is harmed

• One organism benefits from the relationship the other is not affected

• Both organisms benefit negatively from the relationship

When a mosquito bites you, you are the __________ and the mosquito is the ____________.

• host, hostess

• parasite, host

• host, parasite

• prey, predator

Remoras eat food left over by the shark it swims along with. The shark makes no attempt to prey upon the remora and there is no benefit to the shark having the left over food removed.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• predation

This is an example of....

• commensalism

• predation

• parasitism

• mutualism