1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. What type of relationship is a hermit crab using an anemone to protect it from predators. The anemone in turn gets food particles that float off the hermit crab? | mutualism | 2. What type of relationship is two male alligators fighting over territory and for the females around the territory? | competition | 3. What type of relationship is a barnacle living attached to a whale? The barnacle benefits because the movement of waters from the whale swimming carrying food particles to the barnacle. The whale is neither helped nor harmed. | commensalism | 4. What type of relationship is a bee getting nectar from a flower? The flower in turn is being pollinated. | mutualism | 5. What type of relationship is an antelope gathering in herds to protect one another from predators? | cooperation | 6. What type of relationship is the fungi that causes ringworm growing on human skin? | parasitism | 7. What type of relationship is ants working together to form a bridge so that food can be carried across? | cooperation | 8. What type of relationship is termites living in colonies? A king and queen produce young. Workers gather food. Soldiers defend the colony. | cooperation | 9. What type of relationship is an oak tree growing beside a pine tree? Eventually, the oak tree overshadows the pine tree and the pine tree dies. | competition | 10. What type of relationship is Zebra mussels and Mississippi River mussels eating the same types of food and living in the same type of habitats? When zebra mussels are introduced into the habitat, Mississippi River mussels decline. | competition | 11. What type of relationship is two male lions fighting over territory? | competition | 12. What type of relationship is a bumblebee gathering nectar from cucumber plants, and as a result, the bumblebee cross-pollinates the plants? | mutualism | 13. What type of relationship is a deer tick attaching to a deer and receiving a blood meal? | parasitism | 14. What type of relationship is two different species of bird trying to use the same nesting space, food source, and water supply in an area? | competition | 15. What type of relationship is dolphins working together to “herd” herring into a bait ball and the dolphins taking turns eating from the ball? | cooperation | 16. What type of relationship is egrets following cattle and eating insects that are disturbed by the cattle’s grazing? Egrets benefit from the cattle, but the cattle receive no benefit from the egrets. | commensalism | 17. What type of relationship is a hawk hunting down and killing a rabbit? | predation | 18. What type of relationship is a tapeworm receiving nutrients from the intestines of a cat? | parasitism | 19. What type of relationship is a shrimp and a goby living together? The shrimp builds the burrow they live in while the goby watches for predators. | mutualism | 20. What type of relationship is an eagle diving, capturing, and eating a fish from a local pond? | predation | 21. What type of relationship is wolves in a pack working together to hunt and kill prey? They also help one another raise their young. | cooperation | 22. What type of relationship is exhibited by a harmless King snake that has the same coloration as a deadly Coral Snake? | mimicry | 23. What type of relationship is exhibited by edible mushrooms that have the same appearance as poisonous mushrooms? | mimicry |
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