Ch 1 Populations and Communities Study Guide

All the living and nonliving things that interact in a particular way

• prey

• predator

• limiting factor

• ecosystem

The organism that is killed

• population

• predator

• prey

• ecology

The organism that does the killing

• predator

• prey

• biotic

• abiotic

A relationship in which both species benefit

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• habitat

The living parts of an ecosystem

• population

• biotic factor

• abiotic factor

• parasitism

relationship where one species benefits and other is neither helped nor harmed

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

• predation

the nonliving parts of an ecosystem

• abiotic factors

• biotic factors

• ecology

• parasite

one organism living on or inside another organism harming it

• predation

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

all the members of one species in an area

• community

• population

• ecosystem

• biosphere

all the different populations that live together in an area

• population

• community

• ecosystem

• organism