Interactions in Ecosystem

This is known as a relationship in which both organisms involved benefit. 

• Predator-Prey

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Decomposition

A feeder fish usually follows behind sharks to pick up food scraps that they leave behind. The fish gets food and the shark is unaffected. This is an example of:

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Decomposition

After walking through a field, you find a tick attached to your leg. What is the tick's relationship to you?

• Predator

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Prey

An organism that kills and eats another for food

• Predator

• Prey

• Parasite

• Plant

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Occurs when 2 or more organism use the same resource

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

A close long term association between 2 or more species

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Symbiosis

• Parasitism

Relationship where both organism benefit

• Competition

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

Relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Competition

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