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Chapter 3
Interactions among living things
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Natural selection | A characteristic that makes an individual better suited to its environment may eventually become common in that species through a process |
| Adoptions | the behaviors and physical characteristic that allow organisms to live successfully in their environments |
| Niche | the role of an organism in its habitat,or how it makes its living |
| Competitions | the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource |
| Predation | an interaction in which one organism kills another for food |
| Predator | the organism that does the killing |
| Prey | the organism that is killed |
| Symbiosis | is a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species |
| Mutelism | a relationship in which both species benefit |
| Commensalism | a relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped or harmed |
| Parasitism | involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it |
| Parasite | the organism that benefits |
| Host | and the organism it lives on or in |
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