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Lesson 3 Interactions Among Living Things

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Natural Selection   anything naturally occurring in the environment that humans use  
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Adaptation   an inherited behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment  
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Niche   how an organism makes its living and interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors in its habitat  
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Comptetion   the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources in the same place at the same time  
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Predation   an interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients  
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predator   the organism that does the killing in a predation interaction  
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Prey   an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism in a predation interaction  
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Symbiosis   any relationship in which two species live closely together and that benefits at least one of the species  
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Mutualism   a type of symbiosis in which both species benefit from living together  
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Commensalism   a type of symbiosis between two species in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed  
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Parasitism   a type of symbiosis in which one organism lives with, on, or in a host and harms it.  
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Parasite   the organism that benefits by living with, on, or in a host in a parasitism interaction  
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Host   an organism that a parasite lives with, in, or on, and provides a source of energy or a suitable environment for the parasite to live  
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