Animal Relationships Animals have different kinds of relationships + Besides interspecific and intraspecific, animals also relate to each other in other ways. These relationships can be beneficial or harmful. + The picture shows a prey and predator relationship where the velociraptors hunt down the iguanadon. These types of relationships are symbiotic +Symbiosis refers to the reliance of one organism on another. Parasitism +Parasitism is an example of a bad relationship between organisms. +One organism benefits, the other does not. Mutualism +Organisms help each other. +For example: plants depend on insects like bees to spread pollen. The bees spread pollen when collecting nectar. They both “win”. Commensalism + In this relationship one creature benefits and the other is neither benefitted or harmed. + Example: orchids growing on trees does not affect the tree, but it allows the orchid to grow. A video on symbiosis What types of relationships were you to able to see in the video? Answer on your notebook. Classwork: +Read pages 140-142 and complete page 143.
