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Challenge
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When ants protect a tree and the tree provides them with shelter (type of symbiosis)
What is a mutualistic relationship?
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Mutualistic Relationship
What is when both organisms benefit?
100
When a barnacle attaches itself to a whale's fin (type of symbiosis)
What is an example of a commensalistic relationship
100
Organism that hunts and kills for food
What is a predator
100
A flea living off of an organism (type of symbiosis)
What is an example of parasitism?
100
Which statement best explains the changing levels of bison in relation to rabbit population levels?
When bison populations are large, they compete with rabbits for food on the preserve.
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Bison populations are stable except when rabbit populations are increasing.
What is when bison populations are large, they compete with rabbits for food on the preserve.
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The general accepted definition for symbiosis
What is a close/ long term relationship between two species?
200
When an animal carries and scatters the seeds of a plant (type of symbiosis)
What is an example of commensalism?
200
Lice on a human (type of symbiosis)
What is an example of a parasitic relationship?
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Nitrogen fixing bacteria living on the roots of a legume
What is an example of a mutualistic relationship
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Parasitic relationship
What is one organism benefits while the other is harmed?
200
Which type of relationship is most likely represented in the graph?
The relationship is predator–prey where species X represents the wolves, and species Y represents the rabbits.
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The relationship is predator–prey where species X represents the rabbits, and species Y represents the wolves.
What is the relationship is predator–prey where species X represents the rabbits, and species Y represents the wolves.
300
In the United States logging is destroying many of the forests that are home to the spotted owl. Many conservationists worry that logging will result in the extinction of the spotted owl. What is the primary threat to the spotted owl?
Loss of Habitat
300
Martha's family keeps a bird feeder stocked with seed in their yard. They have more than 80 birds visit their feeder every autumn. Martha's family moves out and Cedric's family moves in. What will happen if they do not stock the bird feeder?
What is the number of birds will descrease
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A rabbit population lives in an area with limited resources. The main predators of the rabbits leave the area. What will happen to the rabbit population over time?
It will increase to a certain level, then remain relatively constant.
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The amount of types of symbiosis there are
What is there are 6 types?
300
What is mutualism
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If this trend continues, what will the mass of the plant with fungus be at 12 months?
10 kg Or 12 kgWhat is 10kg
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When both organisms depend on each other for survival
What is an obligate symbiotic relationship?
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What would most likely happen to a population of woodpeckers if a lumber company cut down all the trees in a forest?
What is the population of woodpeckers would move to another forest.
400
If a prey species becomes extinct, what else is most likely to happen?
What is the predators that eat the prey may be threatened.
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3 types of symbiotic relationships
What are Commensalism, Parasitism, Mutualism
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What is commensalism
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What is the most likely reason that the environment in Florida is better suited for mosquitos than in Maine?
Florida's seasons do not change very much, and temperatures get higher much more quickly.
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There are more carnivorous plants that eat mosquitoes in Maine than in Florida.
What is Florida's seasons do not change very much, and temperatures get higher much more quickly.
500
The size of a population will increase when the number of births
What is greater than the number of deaths.
500
Before South African rhinoceros became extinct, these rhinos could be found across central and western Africa. They had gray skin and pointy lips, and they ate many kinds of plants. They took shelter from the Sun during the day, and they ate in the evening. For protection from the Sun and insects, they found watering holes and rolled in mud. People used their horns for medicine and decoration. What could be a possible reason for the extinction?
What is they were hunted by humans for their horns.
500
Honeybees travel from flower to flower, gathering nectar to eat. Pollen from the flowers sticks to the honeybees and is carried between flowers, which helps the flowers reproduce.This is what type of relationship and why?
What is mutualism because both the honeybees and the flowers benefit
500
2 things that make up the environment
What are abiotic and symbiotic
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When a bee stings a human (type of symbiosis)
What is an example of synnecrosis
500
The picture shows a forest that is home to three kinds of trees: Red maple, White birch, and Pine. It is also home to three kinds of moths: red, brown, and white.
Which of the following would most likely happen if a disease caused most of the White birch trees to die?
The number of white and red moths would increase, while the number of brown moths would decrease.
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The number of red and brown moths would increase, while the number of white moths would decrease.
What is the number of red and brown moths would increase, while the number of white moths would decrease.
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Johanna noticed that, in a forest near her house, seedlings grew in small spots of light. As the seedlings grew taller, they tried to expand into areas where there was more sunlight. After several months, most seedlings died. They were not able to receive enough sunlight. Which of the following does this illustrate?
What is Competition
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The role an organism plays in its environment
What is niche
600
Which type of relationship exists between a vulture and the dead body of a panther that provides food for the vulture?
What is Commensalism
600
The shelf fungi receives water and nutrients from the tree, causing the tree to rot and eventually die over time. What relationship exists between the shelf fungi and the tree?
What is parasitism
600
Aphids are insects that feed on the sap of plants. Aphids can destroy a healthy plant by removing all of its sap or by introducing disease to the plant. This is what type of relationship and why?
The relationship is parasitism because the aphids receive a benefit and the plant is harmed.
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Bees and butterflies both get nectar from flowers as a food source. If most of the flowers died in a particular area, what would happen to the bees and butterflies?
The bees and butterflies would have to compete for food.