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section 3 key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| natural selection | a characteristic that makes an individual better suited to its environment may eventually become in that species |
| adaptations | the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environment |
| 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 in which one organisms kills another for food |
| predator | the organism that does the killing |
| prey | the organism that get killed for food |
| symbiosis | a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species |
| mutualism | a relationship in which both species benefit |
| comensalism | a relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed |
| parasitism | involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it |
| parasite | the organism that benefits |
| host | the organism lives on or in |
| griffin mason | period 1 |