Biology EOC Category 3

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.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• competition

• parasitism

What type of symbiosis?  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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Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that often feed on parasites that infest impala.  This is an example of _______.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• neutralism

• competition

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

• host, hostess

• parasite, host

• host, parasite

• prey, predator

Aphids are tiny insects that live on and eat the leaves of plants, removing vital nutrients from the plants.

• Predation

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

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Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This relationship neither harms nor benefits the whales. 

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

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A cuckoo may lay its eggs in a warbler’s nest. The cuckoo’s young will knock the warbler’s eggs out of a nest and the warbler will raise the cuckoo’s young.

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

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What genetic change allows organisms to survive natural selection in their environments? 

• learned behavior

• acquired traits

• analogies

• adaptations

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Which Adaptation helped the frog blend in with the surroundings?

• Mimicry

• Scent

• Hibernation

• Camouflage

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The diagram is intended to show relationships in an ecosystem. What do the arrows represent?

• The direction of population migration

• Differences in dietary habits

• Progressively smaller organisms

• The direction of the energy flow

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