Symbiosis and Ecosystems

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Objective

I can analyze how symbiotic relationships affect populations in an ecosystem.

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Key concepts

3 concepts

  1. 1

    In a predator-prey relationship, the predator population tends to increase when the prey population increases, but may decrease if the predator population becomes too large.

  2. 2

    Competition occurs when different species or individuals within a species compete for the same limiting resources, such as food or light.

  3. 3

    In mutualism, both organisms benefit; in parasitism, one organism benefits and the other is harmed; and in commensalism, one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

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Practice

9 questions

1

Which of the following describes the relationship between predator and prey populations?

2

In the context of ecological relationships, what is competition?

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Exit ticket

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Explain how a parasitic relationship, such as fleas on a dog, can affect the populations of both the parasite (fleas) and the host (dog) in an ecosystem.

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