Interdependence of Organisms

In this interaction, two organisms that are often of the same species work together to achieve a common goal and increase their chances of survival.

• Cooperation

• Competition

• Commensalism

• Predation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

In this interaction, one organism consumes another organism for food.

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Competition

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

This is a group of relationships that are very close and more or less permanent.

• Symbiosis

• Mutualism

• Interactions

• Parasitism

This is a form of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other organism is neither nelped nor harmed.

• Commensalism

• Competition

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

This is a form of symbiosis where one organism is helped and the other is harmed.

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Predation

• Commensalism

This is the entire group of populations in an ecosystem.

• community

• population

• ecosystem

• biosphere

This is a single living thing.

• organism

• population

• community

• biome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

This is all of the members of a single species in an area.

• population

• biosphere

• community

• biotic factors

This is the group of every single living othing in an ecosystem that is alive right now or was once alive.

• biotic factors

• abiotic factors

• community

• population

This is the entire group of things in an ecosystem that are not alive right now, were never alive in the past, and will never be alive in the future.

• abiotic factors

• biotic factors

• biome

• biosphere