Living things 2
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- symbiosis
- a close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species
- niche
- an organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living
- adaptations
- the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organism to live successfully in their environment
- ecology
- the study of how living things interact with each other and with their environment
- habitat
- the place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs
- commensalism
- A relationship between two species in which one specie benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
- Predation
- an interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
- predator
- the organism that does the killing
- mutualism
- a relationship in which both species benefit
- ecosystem
- all the living and nonliving things that interact in an area
- competition
- the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
- prey
- an organism that is killed in predation
- parasitism
- a relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another and harms it
- host
- the organism that a parasite lives in or on in parasitism