Symbiosis
What is Symbiosis?
Relationships between organisms that live in the same area.
What is Ecology?
Ecology is a branch of science that studies the relationship between living organisms and their surroundings.
What is a producer?
Producers are living things that create their own food.
What are consumers?
Consumers are usually animals that will eat the producers.
What is a decomposer?
Decomposers are usually bacteria.
Give an example of a parasitic relationship.
Ticks, tapeworms, beetle on plants, etc.
Are plants the ONLY producers, true or false?
False, some bacteria can also be producers.
What is a mutualistic relationship?
When both organisms benefit from the relationship.
What are three types of consumers?
Herbivores, Carnivors, Omnivores
Barnacles living on the sides of whales is an example of commensalism. True/False
True
What kind of relationship would clown fish and sea anemone be?
Mutualism
What is the main purpose of ecology?
The main purpose of ecology is to understand the relationship between living organisms and where they're living.
How do decomposers help the ecosystem?
Decomposers help the ecosystem by eating the dead plants and animals and they keep track of the flow of nutrients.