Biotic interactions Flashcards
What are some abiotic factors?
PH levels (acidic or alkaline) Temperature Water Oxygen Wind/ Pressure Light Salinity which is like salt levels Soil
What are the key ecological factors?
Temp Food water oxygen light
What is symbiosis?
well, it is a special, close relationship where at least one organism benefits from the other
What are the three types of symbiotic relationships?
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
What’s mutualism?
Where both organisms benefit from each other
What’s commensalism?
Where one organism only benefits from the other but that’s it
What’s parasitism?
Where the organism benefits of the host but in doing so it also harms it
Parasites that live on the host are called-
ectoparasites
Parasites that live outside the host-
endoparasites
ECOLOGICAL COMPETITION
It’s required for survival and reproduction
they may compete over food, water, territory, shelter, light and mates.
Competition between diff organisms are called
interspecific
Comp. between the same organisms are-
intraspecific
