6.1 Vocab

Question 1

Habitat

Answer 1

Where an organism lives and includes biotic and abiotic factors that influence its life

Question 2

Tolerance

Answer 2

Ability of organism to live and reproduce under conditions different than their usual or optimal ones

Question 3

Niche

Answer 3

All biological and physical circumstances where an organism survives and uses its surroundings at each circumstance

Question 4

Resource

Answer 4

Necessity of life such as water, light food or nutrients

Question 5

Competitive Exclusion Principle

Answer 5

Principle that says how no two different species can occupy or perform the same niche at the same habitat at the same time

Question 6

Keystone Species

Answer 6

Singular species that is not too abundant in population but still exerts control over the structure of community

Question 7

Symbiosis

Answer 7

How two different live closely together

Question 8

Commensalism

Answer 8

Symbiotic relationship in which one organism gains something

Question 9

mutualism

Answer 9

relationship where both speciees benefit

Question 10

parasitism

Answer 10

one organism lives in another and harms it