Ecological Relationships Flashcards

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Niche

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a description of where and organisms lives and what it does for a living

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Competition

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When more than one organisms attempts to use the same limited ecological resources at the same place and same time

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A ___ is an organisms that regularly hunts for food

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predator

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___ is an organisms regularly hunted as food

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prey

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Keystone species is a species that has a ____ role to ____ structure, stability, and diversity in an ____

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unique, maintain, ecosystem

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Commensalism is when one organisms Is hurt while nothing happens to the other organisms

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False
Commensalism is when one organisms Is benefited while nothing happens to the other organisms

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Mutualism is when ___ organisms are ___

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both, benefitted

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Paratism is when an organism live inside a host and the host is harmed

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true

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Symbiosis

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a close interdependent relationship between two species

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