Frogs live in pools of water collected by flowers in the top of rain forest canopies. the flowers get nutrients from the frog wastes. which type of relationship is this?

This type of relationship is Mutualism.

Mutualism is a type of relationship in which two organisms of different species both benefits from the activity of the other. From the question given, both the frogs and the flowers benefits from the relationship. The flowers provide shelter for the frogs, as the frogs live in pools of water collected by the flowers while the flowers also obtain nutrients from the frog wastes. Therefore, the relationship between the two organisms is mutual.

Mutualism (Symbiosis)

Explanation:

Mutualism is a  biological interaction between two organisms (the symbionts) in which both benefits without being negatively affected in any form.

Biological interaction between two organisms is generally referred to as symbiosis. Symbiosis can be mutualism if both organisms benefit, commensalism if one benefits and the other is unaffected or parasitic if one benefits and the other is negatively affected.

IN this case, frogs derive their habitat in the pools of water collected by the flowers, a beneficial action. The flowers get nutrients from the wastes of the frogs, also a beneficial action. It is a win-win situation for both the frogs and the flowers.

The correct answer is mutualism, a form of symbiosis.

from almost the creation of the first true maps of the earth, people started seeing how continents would be able to fit together.   in particular, people noticed that south america fits almost exactly into africa.

you should be aware that while world maps were around early in the 1600’s and better defined by the end of the 1700’s, those maps were not ‘public’ but were treated as state secrets.   and so it was not till much later that the broader ‘science’ community had access to good quality and accurate world maps.

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it is now known that most of the major continental masses can be fit together in a jigsaw process.   in fact we now know that the continents were indeed once all joined together as one land mass – the supercontinent of pangaea.

if you look at most world maps you will ponder how this is evidence, as the continents really don’t appear to ‘fit’ together very well.   what you need to understand is that the vast majority of maps are drawn using a map projection that has the north and south poles (which are points) are a line the width of the map at the top and bottom.   this means that the map distorts the true shape of the earth’s land and oceans as you love closer to the poles.     some other map projections distort less, but have the map shape looking like segments of an orange.   see here for a range of map projections.   check out the way greenland changes size in each!

what is more remarkable, is the next piece of evidence when added to the shape of continents.

location of mountains and fossils

what is remarkable, when you reassemble all the continents together, the ancient mountain ranges (many now eroded to their cores) and the location of rock types and fossils all match up.