Species Coexistence Worksheet

Species Coexistence

Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will test your understanding of how different species interact and coexist in an ecosystem.

1. Which type of relationship benefits both species involved?

2. A remora fish attaches to a shark and eats scraps of food that the shark leaves behind. The shark is not affected. What kind of relationship is this?

3. In a   relationship, one species benefits while the other is harmed.

4. When two species need the same limited resources, they are in  .

5. A   shows how energy flows through an ecosystem by showing who eats whom.

6. All species in an ecosystem compete for the exact same resources.

7. A producer makes its own food, usually through photosynthesis.

8. Observe the food web diagram below. Identify one producer and one primary consumer.

9. Explain the difference between a predator and prey, and provide an example of each.

Match each term on the left with its definition on the right.