Instructions:
1. Use the internet to fill out organism roles and relationship using words below.
2. Write down a human interaction (a-c) that relates to the relationship type.
Picture
Organisms
1
Forest/Mushroom
2
Elephant/Grassland
3
Lioness/Human hunter
4
Grasshopper/Leaves
5
Ant/Aphid
6
Buffalo/Cowbird
7
Badger/Honey guide
8
Hermit Crab/Snail
9
Deer/Tick
10
Cuckoo/Warbler
11
Gazelle/Ostrich
12
Shark/Remora Fish
13
Your own human
example
Your own human
example
Your own human
example
14
15
Best Buddies in various
ecosystems
Organism and its role
Ex: Forest provides food for mushrooms
when trees and leaves die.
Name: _____________________
Per: _______
Organism and its role
Ex: Mushroom gets energy from dead
material from trees in forest.
Type of relationship
Ex: Producer/Decomposer
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Relationships –May be used more than once
Mutualism
Commensalism
Predator/Prey
Parasitism
Producer/Consumer
Producer/Decomposer
Key to organisms:
Picture number
1
Organism and Role
Forest/produces food from
sunlight
Grassland/produces food from
sunlight
Lioness may hunt or be hunted
by man
Leaves/produces food from
sunlight
Ant/feeds and protects aphids
Organism and Role
Mushroom/decomposer
Type of relationship
Producer/decomposer
Elephant/consumes food
Producer/consumer
Man may hunt or be hunted by
lion
Grasshopper/consumes leaves
Predator/prey
Aphid/produce food for ant
Mutualism
8
Hermit crab/uses snail shell
9
Deer/provide home and food
10
Cuckoo/lays eggs in warblers
nest
Cowbird/eats insects the buffalo
stirs up.
Honey guide/shows badger
where bee hive is
Snail/discards shell when
outgrown
Tick/feed on deer blood, pass
disease
Warbler/hatches and feeds
cuckoo offspring, warbler chicks
may die
Gazelle/lives with ostrich herds
and helps warn of danger
Shark/doesn’t know remora is
around
Commensalism
7
Buffalo/stir up insects as they
walk through grass
Badger/opens bee hive
2
3
4
5
6
11
12
Ostrich/lives with gazelle herds
and helps warn of danger
Remora/feeds off shark scraps
Producer/consumer
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Parasitism OR commensalism
Mutualism
Commensalism
Relationships –May be used more than once
Mutualism
Commensalism
Predator/Prey
Parasitism
Producer/Consumer
Producer/Decomposer