Symbiosis

When a honeybee pollinates flowers, the bee gets access to nectar, while the flowers gain the chance to reproduce. This is an example of:

• Amensalism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

Remoras are fish that swim alongside sharks, eating scraps that the sharks leave behind. This is an example of:

• Amensalism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Yucca flowers are pollinated by yucca moths. The moths lay their eggs in the flowers where the larvae hatch and eat some of the developing seeds. Both species benefit. 

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from a spruce tree. The spruce tree is harmed. 

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

The stork uses it saw-like bill to cut up the dead animals it eats. As a result, the dead animal carcass is accessible to some bees for food and egg laying. The relationship neither harms nor benefits the stork.

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Hermit Crabs live in shells made and then abandoned by snails.

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Competition

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Which of the following shows the symbiotic relationship between the Rodent and the Bird?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Competition

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The hermit crab carrying the sea anemone on its back.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

Bees and a flower

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The ants and the acacia tree living together and both receiving benefits.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism