Competition, Symbiosis and Predation Terms
Symbiosis
Competition
Predation
Identify the type of symbiosis
100
This term describes an organism's role in it's habitat, or when and how it survives
What is a niche
100
An example of this type of symbiosis is a hawk building its nest on an arm of a saguaro cactus
What is commensalism
100
The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources
What is competition
100
Interaction in which one organisms kills another for food or nutrients
What is predation
100
stinging ants whom nest in an acacia tree. The thorns of the tree protect the ants from predators. The ants attack animals who approach the tree and clear competing plants away from the base of the tree
What is mutualism
200
This describes the two major types of interactions among organisms
What are predation and competition
200
The type of symbiosis where both organisms benefit
What is mutualism
200
Organisms that share the same habitat have these to help them reduce competition
What is adaptation
200
In predation, the organism that does the killing
What is a predator
200
A bird building a nest in a tree
What is commensalism
300
In parasitism, this is the term for the organisms that benefits
What is a parasite
300
Besides predation and symbiosis, the other main type of interaction between organisms
What is symbiosis
300
One of the resources that organisms may compete over
What is either water, food or shelter
300
In predation, the organism that is killed
What is prey
300
Dwarf mistletoe is a plant that grows into the bark of a tree to obtain water and nutrients
What is parasitism
400
In parasitism, that organism that the parasite lives on
What is a host
400
relationship where one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed
What is commensalism
400
Competition within the same species
What is intraspecific competition
400
The happens when there are too many predators in an area
What is a decrease in the prey population
400
Moral eels that open their mouths and allow special shrimp to come in and eat the parasites living in their mouths
What is mutualism
500
Identify the following as intraspecific or interspecific competition and explain why: A hyena chases off a vulture to feast on an antelope carcass
What is interspecific competition
500
A relationship that involves one organisms living with, on, or inside another organism and harming it
What is parasitism
500
Competition that occurs between members of different species
What is interspecific competition
500
This results when there is a decrease the amount of prey in an area
What is a decrease in the predator population
500
The strangler fig grows by wrapping itself around another tree in order to climb higher through the treetops, where it then spreads out its branches and leaves to absorb the sunlight. Meanwhile, the strangler fig’s roots are absorbing water and nutrients from the ground around the “host” tree
What is parasitism
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