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4.2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Tolerance | Ability of an organism to survive and reproduce under circumstances that differ from their optimal conditions |
| Habitat | Area where an organism lives, including the biotic and abiotic factors that affect it |
| Niche | Full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions |
| Competitive Exclusion Principle | Principle that states that no 2 species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time |
| Predition | Interaction in which one organism(the predator) captures and feeds on another organism |
| Herdivory | Interactions in which 1 animal (the Herbivore) feeds on producers (such as plants) |
| Keystone speices | Single species that is not usually abundant in a community yet exerts strong control on the structure of a community |
| Symbolism | the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. |
| mutalism | a relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the association. |
| parasitism | a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another. |
| commensalism | a type of relationship between two species of a plant, animal, fungus, etc., in which one lives with, on, or in another without damage to either. |