Symbiosis Game!!!

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Symbiosis Game!!!
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• Rules You will be given an interaction between
  two living organisms. With your team quietly
  discuss what type of symbiosis you think it is
  commensalism, parasitism, or mutualism. When time
  is up you will be ask to hold up your card to
  show what type you think it is. Each correct
  answer gets your team one point.

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• The gall insect lays eggs in an oak tree, causing
  a lump that isnt harmful to the tree.  It also
  gets shelter and food from the tree

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• Commensalism

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• The bison stirs up insects in the grass, which
  the cowbird eats

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• Commensalism

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• The cowbird lays eggs in other birds nests and
  the cowbird chicks push out the host eggs and eat
  the parents food

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• Parasitism

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• Morel mushrooms help the tree roots absorb water
  and minerals, and sugar and starches are absorbed
  by the mushroom.  When the tree dies the mushroom
  produces spores to reproduce.

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• Mutualism

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• The monarch butterfly drinks nectar and lays eggs
  on milkweed.  The monarch larvae eat the milkweed
  leaves and obtain the leaves poisonous chemical
  which prevents predators from eating them, the
  monarch also pollinates the milkweed.

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• Mutualism

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• Mosquitoes eat human blood for nutrition to lay
  eggs

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• Parasitism

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• Grape vines grow up the trunk of the ash tree to
  get more light and space

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• Commensalism, but some other vines kill the tree
  which is parasitism

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• Freshwater mussels lay larvae on fish which
  irritate the fishs scales

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• Parasitism

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• The human digestive system contains bacteria
  which aide digestion and vitamin production

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• Mutualism