Ecosystem vocabulary Flashcards
adaptation
Behavior Physical characteristics characteristics of species that allow hold on to the successful and their environment
symbiosis
Close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Competition
the struggle between organisms to survive in the habitat of limited resources
predication
Which one organism kills and eats another
Predator
An animal that kills and eats another
Prey
an animal that is eaten by a animal
mutualism
A relationship in which both species benefit
commensalism
in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped or harmed very nature
parasitism
a relationship where one organism lives in or on another organism and is harmed
Parasite
the organism that benefits in parasitism
host
the organism that harms in parasitism
