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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Coevolution | Members of a community |
| Predation | The act of one organism killing another for food |
| Parastism | Organism feeds and usually lives on or another |
| Secondary compounds | Defensive chemicals |
| Symbosis | Two or more species live tighter in a close long term association |
| Mutualism | Symbiotic relationship in which both partipatting species benefit |
| Commensalism | One species benefit and the other is neither harmed or benefit |
| Competition | When two species use the same resource |
| Niche | Is how the organism lives the job it performs in an ecosystem |
| Fundmental | Niche range of resource opportunities an organism is pottentially able to occupy with ecosystem |
| Relized niche | Fundamental niche that a species occupies is realized niche |
| Competive exclusion | The elimination of a competing species |
| Biodiversity | Variety of living organism present in a community |
| Climate | Weather conditions in any giving area |
| Biome | A major biological community that occurs over large area |
| Littoral zone | Is a shallow zone near the shore |
| Limmnetic zone | Refers to the area farther away from shore but close to surface |
| Profound zone | Is deep water zone where light can't reach |
| Plankton | Composed of bacteria algae fish and larva |