Mid Terms

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)