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INTERDEPENDENCE AND SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS IN
TROPICAL RAINFORESTS EXAM QUESTIONS
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-Guarantee passing score -15 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Certain insects such as ants and termites rely on each other and work as a team to build mounds where the group will live, or hunt together to find food. This is an example of what type of symbiotic relationship?
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Mutualism Question 2: Capuchin monkeys love to eat the flowers from certain trees. When they eat, pollen sticks to them. As the monkey travels, the pollen is carried and dropped, allowing for new flowers to grow. This is an example of what type of symbiotic relationship?
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Mutualism
Question 3: What do interdependent relationships form over millions of years?
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The base of the ecosystem
Question 4: The leaf cutter ants cut small pieces off leaves in the jungle and take them underground into their tunnels. They create small chambers where they store the leaf cuttings.Fungus grows on the leaves and the ants use bits of the fungus to feed their young. This is an example of what type of symbiotic relationship?
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Mutualism Question 5: Often, a seed or a seed pod will fall onto an animal, like a sloth, who then walks through the forest. The seed will then fall off and plant itself, growing a new tree. This is an example of what type of symbiotic relationship?
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Commensalism
Question 6: What are the three types of symbiosis?
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Mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism Question 7: Leeches attach to animals and feed off their blood, harming the animals. This is a type of what symbiotic relationship?
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Parasitism Question 8: The frogs benefit by using the leaves of the vermiliad as shelter from sun and rain.The vermiliad is unaffected by the frogs. This is an example of what type of symbiotic relationship?
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Commensalism
Question 9: What is an interdependent relationship?
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A relationship where both partners are mutually reliant on each other
Question 10: What is parasitism?
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A relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it
Question 11: What is commensalism?
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A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed
Question 12: What is mutualism?
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A relationship where both organisms benefit
Question 13: What is a symbiotic relationship?
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A relationship in which two species live closely together Question 14: Frogs get shelter and water from the bromeliad, but the bromeliad is unaffected.This is an example of what type of symbiotic relationship?
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Commensalism Question 15: Botflies lay their eggs on jaguars and other animals. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae grow to maturity by feeding on the flesh of the jaguar. This is an example of what type of symbiotic relationship?
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Parasitism