Organisms Interactions in Ecosystems

Which of the following symbiotic relationships is considered parasitic?

• Ticks feeding on a dog

• Bees transporting pollen from flowers

• Pilotfish swimming under sharks

• Birds eating the insects fromo the back of hippo

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

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

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

A relationship that describe a close interaction between two different species is known as what?

• Biodiversity

• Symbiosis

• Predation

• Emigration

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