Exploring Symbiosis
This worksheet introduces Grade 6 students to the concept of symbiosis and its different types through engaging questions and examples.
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Exploring Symbiosis
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will test your understanding of symbiotic relationships in nature.
Symbiosis is a close and long-term interaction between two different biological organisms. These interactions can be beneficial, harmful, or neutral to one or both organisms.
1. What is the definition of symbiosis?
Organisms fighting each other
A close relationship between two different species
Animals eating plants
Plants growing in a garden
2. Which type of symbiotic relationship benefits both organisms?
Parasitism
Commensalism
Mutualism
Predation
3. In a parasitic relationship, one organism benefits while the other is .
4. A clownfish living in a sea anemone is an example of because the clownfish gets protection and the anemone is not harmed.
5. All symbiotic relationships are beneficial to both organisms involved.
True
False
6. Mutualism is when one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped.
True
False
7. Describe an example of a mutualistic relationship. Explain why it is mutualism.
Match each symbiotic relationship with its description.
8. Mutualism
a. One organism benefits, the other is harmed
9. Commensalism
b. Both organisms benefit
10. Parasitism
c. One organism benefits, the other is unaffected
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