Ecosystem Interactions Vocabulary Flashcards
Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment.
Adaptation
A close relation between two species that benefits at least one of them.
Symbiosis
The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources.
Competition
An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another.
Predation
An animal that kills and eats another.
Predator
An animal that is eaten by another animal.
Prey
A relationship in which both species benefit.
Mutualism
A relationship in which one species benefit and the other species is neither helped nor harmed.Very rare in nature.
Commensalism
A relationship where one organism lives in or on another organism and harms it.
Parasitism
The organism that benefits in parasitism.
Parasite
The organism that is harmed in parasitism.
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