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Comunity/Populations
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Habitat | A place where an organism lives out its life |
| Niche | The role and position a species has in its environment-how it meets its needs for food and shelter, how it survives, and how it reproduces. |
| Population | A group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time. |
| Community | A collection of interacting populations |
| Predators | animals that eat and kill other animals |
| Prey | animals that predators eat |
| Intraspecific Competition | occurs between orgs. of the same species |
| Interspecific Competition | occurs between orgs. of different species, caused by niche overlap |
| Predation | when one organism feeds off another (prey) |
| Symbiosis | Any relationship in which two species live closely together |
| Mutualism | both species benefit from the relationship |
| Commensalism | one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. |
| Parasitism | one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it |
| Population Growth | an increase in the size of a population over time |
| Exponential Growth | a population gets larger, it also grows faster |
| Logistic Growth | occurs when a population's growth slows or stops following a period of exponential growth. |