Symbiotic Relationships In Ecology

The process by which organisms that are best adapted to their environment are most likely to survive and reproduce.

• Niche

• Natural Selection

• Competition

• Symbiosis

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

An inherited behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in it's environment.

• Natural Selection

• Commensalism

• Predation

• Adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

How an organism makes its living and interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors in its habitat.

• Niche

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Competition

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources in the same place at the same time.

• Symbiosis

• Competition

• Predator

• Mutualism

An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients.

• Symbiosis

• Parasitism

• Predation

• Adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The organism that does the killing in a predation interaction.

• Prey

• Predator

• Commensalism

• Deer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism in a predation interaction.

• Deer

• Predator

• Tick

• Prey

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Any relationship in which two species live closely together and that benefits at least one of the species.

• Predation

• Natural Selection

• Competition

• Symbiosis

A type of symbiosis in which both species benefit from living together.

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Adaptation

A type of symbiosis between two species in which one species benefits and the other species in neither helped nor harmed.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Natural Selection