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Chapter 3
Interactions Among Living Things
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| natural selection | a characteristic that makes an individual better suited to its enviroment |
| adaptions | the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live succesfully in thier enviroment |
| niche | the role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes it's living |
| competition | the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource |
| predatation | an interaction in which one organism kills another for food |
| predator | the organism that does the killing |
| prey | the organism that is killed |
| symboisis | a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species |
| mutalism | a relationship in which both species benifit |
| commensalism | a relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped |
| parasitism | involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it |
| parasite | the organism that benefits |
| host | the organism that it lives on or in |