ecosystem interactions vocab Flashcards
behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
adaptation
a close relationship between 2 species that benefits at least one of them
symbiosis
the struggle between organism to survive in a habitat with limited resources
competition
an interaction in which one organism kill and eats the other
predation
an animal that kills and eats another
predator
an animal that is eaten by another animal
prey
a relationship in which both species benefits
mutualism
a relationship where one organism lives in or on another and harms it
parasitism
a relationship in which one species benefits and the other species in neither helped nor harmed.very rare in nature
commercialism
the organism that benefits in parasitism
parasite
the organism that is harmed in parasitism
host