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Living Things
Key Words Ch.1 Sec.3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| natural selection | a characteristic that makes an individual better suited to its environment |
| adaptations | the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environment |
| niche | an organisms role in its habitat |
| competition | the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource |
| predation | interaction in which one organism kills another for food |
| predator | the organism that does the killing |
| prey | the organism that is killed |
| symbiosis | a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species |
| mutualism | a relationship in which both species benefit |
| commensalism | a relationship where one species benefits, and the other species isn't helped or harmed |
| parasitism | involves one organism living inside another and harming it. one benefits, and one is harmed |
| parasite | the organism that BENEFITS in the parasitism relationship |
| host | the organism that the parasite lives in or on and is HARMED |