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Living Interactions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Natural Selection | Something that makes an individual better suited to survive |
| Adaption | Physical characteristics and behaviors that help an animal survive |
| Niche | A organisms role in it's habitat |
| Competition | Organisms going after limited resources |
| Predation | One organism kills another for food or nutrients |
| Predator | The organism that kills |
| Symbiosis | Two species live close to each other, and at least one benefits |
| Prey | The organism that gets killed |
| Mutualism | Wen both organisms benefit |
| Parasitism | One organism benefits and the other is harmed |
| Parasite | The organism that benefis |
| Host | The organism the bad organism lives on |
| Commensalism | One species benefits, and nothing happens to the other |