Adapting
Behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environments.
What are adaptations?
This is the organism that does the killing in order to obtain food.
What is the predator?
The form of symbiosis where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
This is the term for all of the non-living parts of an organism's environment.
What are abiotic factors?
This form of adaptation allows an organism to blend in with its surroundings?
What is camouflage?
This is the organism that is killed and eaten?
What is the prey?
This is the type of relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
This is the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.
What is ecology?
The process by which organisms gradually become better suited to their environment.
What is natural selection?
This is the name of the type of animal interaction where one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
In a parasitic relationship, this is the name for the organism that does not benefit.
What is the host?
An environment that provides the things that an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is habitat?
The poison dart frog has this adaptation that it uses to stay alive by warning others that it is poisonous and should not be eaten.
What is warning coloring?
In this type of interaction, organisms struggle to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources.
What is competition?
The shark and the remora is an example of this type of symbiotic relationship.
What is commensalism?
This is what you call all of the different populations living together in an area.
What is a community?
The role of an organism in its habitat. Also, how an organism makes its living.
What is niche?
Known for being the fastest animal on the planet, this aviator also has very keen eyesight.
What is the peregrine falcon?
Walking under this parasite in a doorway around the holidays may obligate you to receive a kiss from your Aunt Mildred.
What is mistletoe?
This is the scientist who came up with the idea of continental drift.
Who was Alfred Wegener?