KJMS Relationship Vocabulary

When one organism benefits and the other organism is neither harmed nor benefited.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• competition

What is the relationship called when one species benefits at the expense of another species (it is harmed)?

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• competition

What type of symbiosis occurs when both organisms benefit from the interaction.

• commensalism

• parasitism

• mutualism

• competition

What type of symbiotic relationship involves one organism hunting and eating another organism?

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Predator-Prey

• Parasitism

Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism are all examples of ____.

• Types of Symbiosis

• Types of Ecosystems

• Types of Biomes

• Types of Interactions

What is the term for organisms that produce their own food, usually through photosynthesis?

• consumers

• decomposers

• producers

• herbivores

An environment that contains all the living and nonliving factors in a specific area is called an ____________

• ecosystem

• habitat

• biome

• community

An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms is a ______________

• producer

• decomposer

• consumer

• autotroph

When organisms are both trying to get the same limited resource? (Can be the same species or different species.)

• Competition

• Cooperation

• Predation

• Mutualism

An interdependent relationship between two different species. (At least one species depends upon the other to survive.)

• Mutualism

• Symbiosis

• Commensalism

• Parasitism