Some relationships between different organisms are shown in the table below. Relationship
Description
1
A lion stalks, captures, and eats a Cape buffalo.
A tapeworm enters the digestive system of a
human and consumes the nutrients in the intestines
so that they are not available to the human.
2
3
A cattle egret follows cattle around and eats insects
disturbed by the movement of the cattle, but the
cattle are unaffected.
4
A green anole and a brown anole use the same
resources to survive in a vacant yard near a pond.
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Which of the following statements is a scientific claim? a. the early solar system had large amounts of water; so, the oldest objects in the solar system should also be abundant in water. b. earth is shaped like a sphere even if not all of the scientific observations related to its shape support this idea. c. the mass of the universe is much greater than current models predict; it is not possible to explain this inconsistency. d. planet earth is abundant in water, but there is no way to scientifically determine from where earth's water originated.