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Animal Interactions pg 125. Competition. Competition - the type of interaction in which organisms struggle with one another to obtain resources. What Resources are most common?. Food Water Habitat Females. Niche.
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Competition -the type of interaction in which organisms struggle with one another to obtain resources
What Resources are most common? • Food • Water • Habitat • Females
Niche -The role an organism plays in a community, or how it makes its living
Symbiosis -a close relationship between two organisms in which at least one organism benefits
Parasite -lives on or in a larger organism and feeds on it while it is still alive
Rules: You will be given an interaction between two living organisms. With your team quietly discuss what type of symbiosis you think it is: commensalism, parasitism, or mutualism. When time is up you will be ask to hold up your card to show what type you think it is. Each correct answer gets your team one point.
The gall insect lays eggs in an oak tree, causing a lump that isn’t harmful to the tree. It also gets shelter and food from the tree
The bison stirs up insects in the grass, which the cowbird eats
The cowbird lays eggs in other birds’ nests and the cowbird chicks push out the host eggs and eat the parents’ food
Morel mushrooms help the tree roots absorb water and minerals, and sugar and starches are absorbed by the mushroom. When the tree dies the mushroom produces spores to reproduce.
The monarch butterfly drinks nectar and lays eggs on milkweed. The monarch larvae eat the milkweed leaves and obtain the leaves’ poisonous chemical which prevents predators from eating them, the monarch also pollinates the milkweed.
Grape vines grow up the trunk of the ash tree to get more light and space
Commensalism, but some other vines kill the tree which is parasitism
Freshwater mussels lay larvae on fish which irritate the fish’s scales