interactions between species. engage symbiotic circle
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Interactions Between Species
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• Symbiotic Circle
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Write down in your own words the way the organisms
relate to one another in the videosWho is benefited, harmed, or neither?
ExplainSymbiotic Relationships
Commensalism: One organism is benefitted by relationship and the other is neither harmed nor benefitted.
Mutualism: Both organisms are benefitted by relationship and neither are harmed
Parasitism: One benefits and the other is harmed.
Predation: One organism preys or hunts the other organism.
Parasitism
Leeches attach to host organism and suck its
blood!
The host is harmed and the leech is benefited
by a free meal!
What’s the relationship?Woodpecker and Tree ants
• In the spring, the southern Rufous woodpecker and the black tree ant truce for a short while during egg laying.
• The ants protect the bird’s eggs from attacks by the nest
• The bird protects the ants’ nest from other birds while the chosen bird is nesting there.
What’s the relationship?Cattle Egrets and Cattle
• Livestock movement cause insects to stir up in grazing fields.
• As the insects are stirred up, the cattle egrets following the livestock catch and feed upon them.
What’s the relationship?Oxpecker and Zebra
• Oxpeckers obtain a meal while the Zebra is freed of lice, ticks, and flees.
What’s the relationship?Plover Bird and Crocodile
• While obtaining a meal, the Plover bird cleans the crocodile’s teeth and helps prevent infections.
Tick on a Human
ElaborateMalaria Virtual Tour
• Malaria Life Cycle
• http://malaria.wellcome.ac.uk/node40036.html
Evaluate
• A symbiotic relationship that occurs when both member benefit is called?
Spanish Moss on Tree
• The Spanish moss benefits, but the tree is neither harmed or benefited.
Which best represents mutualism?
• Bull snake/mouse
• White-tailed deer/grass
• Hummingbird/blossom
• Spadefoot toad/cricket
What symbiotic relationship is it?
• An oakworm catepillar feeds on the leaves of an oak tree. This type of interaction is: