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Ch. 1, Sec. 3, Terms
Chapter 1, Section 3, Key Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Natural Selection | A characteristic that makes an individual better suited to its environment may eventually become common in that species through this process |
| Adaptaions | Behabiors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environments |
| Niche | The role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living. |
| Competition | The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource |
| Predation | An interaction when 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 atleast one species |
| Mutualism | A relationship when both species benefit |
| Commensalism | A relationship when one species benefits and the other is unharmed |
| Parasitism | A relationship when one species benefits and the other is harmed |
| Parasite | The organism that benefits for parasitism |
| Host | The organism the parasite lives on or in |
| McColl Simons | Period 5 |