Science - Topic 5 Vocabulary

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

• Niche

• Competition

• Predation

• Mutualism

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

• Predation

• Niche

• Competition

• Parasitism

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

• Predation

• Parasitism

• Symbiosis

• Commensalism

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

• Symbiosis

• Competition

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

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

• Commensalism

• Symbiosis

• Niche

• Competition

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

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Competition

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The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time.

• Succession

• Pioneer Species

A type of symbiosis in which one organism lives with, on, or in a host and harms it.

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Symbiosis

The first species to populate an area during succession.

• Succession

• Pioneer Species

The number and variety of different species in an area.

• Biodiversity

• Keystone species

• Extinction

• Invasive Species

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