Ecosystem Interactions

An organism where one organism benefits and another is harmed

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Competition

A tapeworm and a cat have this type of relationship.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• competition

What type of symbiosis?  Skunks often live in burrows that have been dug and abandoned by woodchucks.  

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• predation

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

• host, hostess

• parasite, host

• host, parasite

• prey, predator

Which of the following is an interaction between 2 living organisms?

• Frog lays eggs in water

• Oxpecker eats ticks off of bigger animals such as zebras

• Fish depend on water to breathe

• River carving out a canyon making it bigger over millions of years

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Which of the following is an example of a living organism interacting with a non-living thing in its ecosystem?

• Bee spreading pollen from one flower to another

• Ring-tailed lemur eats fruit from the tamarind tree

• Water vapor condensing into water droplets onto tiny pieces of dust in the air to form clouds

• Deer breathes in oxygen from the air

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An animal that gets eaten by another animal is called...

• Mammal

• Organism

• Predator

• Prey

The relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.

• Parasitism

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

This occurs when organisms in a community fight for the same limited resource.

• Commensalism

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Symbiosis

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A fungus controlling the brain of an ant is an example of...

• Predation

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism