Community Relationships
What is the term for all the living organisms in an ecosystem?
Community
What do you call anything that is required for life, such as water, food, light, shelter..?
Resource
What is the type of relationship in which one species benefits from the relationship, and the other is harmed?
Parisitism
What is the interaction that occurs when organisms of the same or of different species attempt to obtain the same limited resource?
competition
A bee collects nectar from a flower and helps the flower reproduce. What type of interaction is this?
Mutualism
Why are relationships between organisms important for maintaining a community?
They influence population sizes, resource availability, survival, and the balance of the ecosystem.
What type of relationship occurs when one organism hunts and eats another?
Predation
What is the difference between mutualism and parasitism?
In mutualism, both organisms benefit. In parasitism, one organism benefits while the other is harmed.
What is the interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism?
Predator-Prey
What do you call a close and permanent relationship between two different species?
Symbiosis
What is the relationship in which one species benefits but the other is neither harmed nor helped?
Commensalism
What are three adaptations of predator species?
Some examples:
What is the term to describe when a harmless organism, over time, becomes to resemble are poisonous or distasteful species in order to prevent being eaten?
Mimicry
What do you call a parasite that lives on the outside of the body?
Ectoparasites