6TH GRADE Chapter 1- section 3 Environmental science vocabulary
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natural selection | Process by which individuals that are better adapted to the environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than others.
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adaption | The behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environments.
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niche | An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living.
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competition | The struggle between organisms for the limited resources in a habitat.
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predation | An interaction in which on organism kills and eats another.
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predator | The organism that does the killing in predation.
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prey | An organism is killed in predation.
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symbiosis | A close relationship between species that benefits at least one of the species.
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mutualism | A relationship between two species which both species benefit.
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commensalism | A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
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parasitism | A relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another and harms it.
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parasite | The organism that benefits by living on or in a host in parasitism.
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host | The organism that parasite lives in or on in parasitism.
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