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Symbiosis Station Lab. Station 1. Sea Otters and Kelp. Station 1. The otters help the kelp by eating the sea urchins which endanger it. The kelp provides and anchor for the otters while they sleep. Station 2. Athletes Foot. Station 2.
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Symbiosis Station Lab
Station 1 Sea Otters and Kelp
Station 1 The otters help the kelp by eating the sea urchins which endanger it. The kelp provides and anchor for the otters while they sleep.
Station 2 Athletes Foot
Station 2 Athlete’s foot is a skin disease, found between the toes or on the bottom of the feet. It is caused by a fungus which gets nutrients form the skin. Athlete’s foot causes dry scaly skin, itching, inflammation, and blisters.
Station 3 Clown Fish and Sea Anemone
Station 3 Sea Anemone protects the clown fish- it does not sting the fish. As other fish try and attack the clown fish the sea anemone stings them and eats the other fish. Clown fish is protected.
Station 4 Oak Gall Wasps and Oak Trees
Station 4 The oak gall wasp stings the oak tree. The tree then grows a GALL which is a nest for the wasp’s babies. When the larva hatch, they eat their way out of the gall. This does not help or hurt the oak tree.
Station 5 Tapeworms
Station 5 Tapeworms live in the intestines of pigs, cows, and even humans. Tapeworms feed off the food that the host eats. The tapeworm has a safe, warm home and a constant food source. The tapeworm can make the host sick or even cause death.
Station 6 Mites on African Hissing Cockroaches
Station 6 Mites get free food by hanging out with roaches. Roaches are not affected by the presence of the mites.
Station 7 Cleaner Fish and the Moray Eel
Station 7 The cleaner fish eats parasites and food bits out of the inside of this moray eel. It gets a meal and is protected from predators by the fierce eel.
Station 8 Burdocks and Deer
Station 8 Burdocks are weeds found along roadsides and in empty lots and fields. The seed heads (burs) of burdocks long spines with hooked tips. The hooked tips catch onto the hair of passing vertebrates (cows, deer, dogs, humans) and the burs are carried elsewhere until they finally drop off or are pulled off by the carriers. The animals are unaffected by the burdocks.
Station 9 Toothwarts and Plants
Station 9 Toothwarts are flowering plants that lack chlorophyll. They attach to the roots of Hazel and Elm trees and obtains its nutrients from the trees. In turn the host trees are deprived of the vital nutrients.