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Adaptations
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adaptation | A characteristic that helps an organism to change and thrive in it's environment |
| Niche | An organism's role or responsibility in an ecosystem |
| Competition | The struggle for resources between organisms in an effort to survive |
| Predation | An interaction between predator and prey where one organism kills the other organism for food |
| Predator | The organism that does the killing |
| Prey | The organism that is killed by a predator |
| Predator Adaptations | Adaptations that help predators catch and kill their prey such as sharp teeth, strong jaws, and fast speed |
| Prey Adaptations | Adaptations that help prey avoid being killed by a predator such as warning coloration, mimicry, camouflage, protective coloration, and false coloring. |
| Warning Coloration | An organism that has bright, eye-catching colors and patterns to warn a predator that it is dangerous or poisonous |
| Mimicry | A defenseless organism will change its appearance to look another organism with bright, eye-catching colors and patterns. |
| Camouflage | An organism changes its appearance to blend in with its environment |
| Limiting Factors | An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease in size. |
| Examples of limiting factors | Food, water, space, and weather |
| Carrying capacity | The largest population that an area can support (the biggest number or organisms that can live in an area). |
| Organism | A single living thing |
| Population | All of the members of one species living in a particular area |
| Community | All of the different populations that live together in an area (all of the living things!) |
| Ecosystem | All of the living and non living things in an area (The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their non-living environment). |
| Biotic Factors | The parts of a habitat that are living, or were once living |
| Abiotic Factors | The non-living parts of an organism's habitat |
| Habitat | An environment that provides the things that a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce. |
| Symbiosis | Any relationship in which two species live closely together and at least one of the species benefits |
| Mutualism | A relationship in which both organisms benefit |
| Commensalism | A relationship in which one species benefits and and the other species is neither helped nor harmed |
| Parasitism | A relationship that involves one organism living with, on, or inside another organism, harming it. |
| Parasite | The organism that lives with, on, or inside of a host, and its benefits. |
| Host | The organism that the parasite lives on or inside, and it is usually harmed. |
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