name: porifera cloze reading #4: interactions & impacts are sponges important? absolutely! sponges have significant impacts on the ecosystems they live within. a sponge can pump up to 50,000 times its body volume in water in a day, serving as a ____ for the water in their habitat. they also ____ detritus and other organic matter that would otherwise go to waste. in addition to keeping the water clean, sponges provide ____ for fish, mollusks, and crustaceans, providing them with protection from ____ and a safe place to lay their ____. while the spiky spicules and unappetizing toxins deter most predators from eating sponges, they are a major food source for ____ and ____. some sponges ____ with coral and other sponges in their ecosystem for space. sponges are also involved in a wide range of ____ relationships, or close relationships in which one organism benefits. a sponge is ____ by a male and female shrimp, while the shrimp gain a safe place to mate and nutrition as it passes through the sponge, resulting in a ____ relationship. a sponge provides shelter for ____ while the sponge gains nutrition from the organisms photosynthetic ways, resulting in a ____ relationship. some species of ____ put a sponge on their back, using the ____ from the sponge to deter predators. the sponges is unaffected by this, making it a ____ relationship. sponges have been fished for ____ of years for their use as bath or cleaning sponges. unfortunately, ____ has resulted in the decline of soft sponge populations. more recently, sponges are being researched and harvested for uses in ____. the ____ in sponges are key components of many medications, such as the drugs to combat ____, ____, and ____. word bank #4 cancer cleaned commensalism compete crabs cyanobacteria eggs filter hawksbill turtles herpes hiv medicine mutualism mutualism overfishing parrotfish predators recycle shelter symbiotic thousands toxins toxins

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name: porifera cloze reading #4: interactions & impacts are sponges important? absolutely! sponges have significant impacts on the ecosystems they live within. a sponge can pump up to 50,000 times its body volume in water in a day, serving as a ____ for the water in their habitat. they also ____ detritus and other organic matter that would otherwise go to waste. in addition to keeping the water clean, sponges provide ____ for fish, mollusks, and crustaceans, providing them with protection from ____ and a safe place to lay their ____. while the spiky spicules and unappetizing toxins deter most predators from eating sponges, they are a major food source for ____ and ____. some sponges ____ with coral and other sponges in their ecosystem for space. sponges are also involved in a wide range of ____ relationships, or close relationships in which one organism benefits. a sponge is ____ by a male and female shrimp, while the shrimp gain a safe place to mate and nutrition as it passes through the sponge, resulting in a ____ relationship. a sponge provides shelter for ____ while the sponge gains nutrition from the organisms photosynthetic ways, resulting in a ____ relationship. some species of ____ put a sponge on their back, using the ____ from the sponge to deter predators. the sponges is unaffected by this, making it a ____ relationship. sponges have been fished for ____ of years for their use as bath or cleaning sponges. unfortunately, ____ has resulted in the decline of soft sponge populations. more recently, sponges are being researched and harvested for uses in ____. the ____ in sponges are key components of many medications, such as the drugs to combat ____, ____, and ____. word bank #4  cancer  cleaned  commensalism  compete  crabs  cyanobacteria  eggs  filter  hawksbill turtles  herpes  hiv  medicine  mutualism  mutualism  overfishing  parrotfish  predators  recycle  shelter  symbiotic  thousands  toxins  toxins

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# Brief Explanations:
Sponges act as filters for water, recycle organic matter, provide shelter from predators and a place for eggs. Hawksbill turtles and parrotfish eat sponges. Sponges compete for space and have symbiotic relationships like commensalism, mutualism. Cyanobacteria and crabs have relationships with sponges. Sponges have been fished for thousands of years and overfishing has harmed populations. Now they are studied for medicine as their toxins are in drugs for cancer, herpes, HIV.
# Answer:
1. Filter
2. Recycle
3. Shelter
4. Predators
5. Eggs
6. Hawksbill turtles
7. Parrotfish
8. Compete
9. Symbiotic
10. Cleaned
11. Commensalism
12. Cyanobacteria
13. Mutualism
14. Crabs
15. Toxins
16. Commensalism
17. Thousands
18. Overfishing
19. Medicine
20. Toxins
21. Cancer
22. Herpes
23. HIV

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