Mutualism
Mutualism Definition
What is a relationship between two animals that benefits both species?
Parasitism Definition
What are parasitic organisms benefiting from a "host"?
Commensalism Definition
What is a relationship that one organism benefits and the other isn't helped or harmed?
Clownfish and anemones
What is a mutualistic relation in which anemones with nematocytes deter predators and clownfish gain shelter for they have a mucous membrane that protects them against stinging?
Contributing Factors to Coral Reef Degradation
What are global warming, pollution, human destruction, changes in water quality, etc.?
Obligate Mutualism
What are organisms being unable to survive without one another?
Parsitic locomotion
What is burrowing?
Commensalism Examples
What are remoras and larger marine animals, or barnacles on whales?
Suckerfish
What is a specialized species attaching themselves to larger marine animals for transportation, and food? What category do these fish fall under?
Coral is composed of the following components
What are calcareous exoskeletons, and secretion of calcium carbonate from corallite deposition?
Facultative Mutualism.
What are species who do not need one another to survive?
Ectoparasites vs. Endoparasites.
What are ectoparasites attaching to hosts externally on the skin or eyes? What are endoparasites entering the body of a host to attach to gills or intestines?
Benefits of commensalism
What are nutrients, shelter, and travel?
Grouper and Cleaner Fish
What are cleaner fish consume dead skin, parasites, and food debris from larger marine animals to help them thrive and establish a mutualistic relationship?
Temperature a which Coral Reefs thrive
What is the temperature of 64-84 degrees Fahrenheit?
Mutualism in Coral Reefs
What are corals and zooxanthellae?
Ectoparasitic behavior
Commensalism in Humans
What is the bacteria within our stomachs?
Parasites within coral reefs
What are coral eating parasites, sea lice, isopods, tape worms, etc.
Earliest Coral Structures
What are bivalves, and sponges?
Process that occurs when zooxanthellae is expelled from coral, and why.
What is coral bleaching(turns white) that occurs when ocean temperatures rise and/or water quality changes?
Harmful factors of parasites that lead to host degradation.
What are isopods consuming hosts' tongues, and other parasites completely taking over organisms?
Remoras
What are small fish that attach through suction and travel with larger marine animals?
Relationships from this column that can be considered in the category of commensalism and mutualism
What are Clownfish/crabs with anemones and cleaner fish?
Common diseases for Coral.
What are black, white, and yellow disease?