Communities, Populations, And Ecosystems

Question 1

Niche

Answer 1

How an organism makes its living and interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors in its habitat

Question 2

Competition

Answer 2

The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources in the same place at the same time

Question 3

Predation

Answer 3

An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients

Question 4

Symbiosis

Answer 4

Any relationship in which two species live closely together and that benefits at least one of the species

Question 5

Commensalism

Answer 5

A type of symbiosis between two species in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed

Question 6

Mutualism

Answer 6

A type of symbiosis in which both species benefit from living together

Question 7

Parasitism

Answer 7

A type of symbiosis in which one organism lives with, on, or in a host and harms it

Question 8

Interactions

Answer 8

The effect that a pair of organisms living together in a community have on each other