Survival Skills
A characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
Adaptation
The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources.
Competition
Symbiosis
A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them.
An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another.
Predation
The process that results in adaptations.
Natural Selection - drives the evolution of traits over generations.
The process by which individuals better suited to their environment are more likely to survive.
Natural Selection
An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, including its food and how it survives.
A niche is "how an organism makes its living"
Mutualism
A symbiotic relationship where both species benefit.
The organism that is killed and eaten.
Prey - They have adaptations like camouflage to avoid death
Two examples of organisms that live on the wax palm tree (Ceroxylon quindiuense), that is the national tree and a key ecosystem in the Andes.
The Yellow-eared parrot (Ognorhynchus icterotis) uses the palm to nest, and several epiphytic orchids grow on its trunk and branches.
An adaptation where an animal looks like its surroundings to hide.
Camouflage
The reason three species of hummingbirds can live in the same páramo.
They occupy different niches
Commensalism
A relationship where one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What are predator adaptations?
An adaptation like sharp teeth, claws, or fast speed used to catch food.
Why the Yellow-eared parrot and the epiphytic orchid can live on the same wax palm tree without dying off?
The parrot uses the palm for nesting, while the orchid uses the trunk and branches to grow.
An adaptation where an organism looks like another dangerous organism.
Mimicry
What are chemicals for plants?
Some plants release toxins to prevent grass from growing around them.
One organism living on or inside another and harming it.
Parasitism
A plant with sticky bulbs that catches and digests flies.
Sundews are carnivorous plants that act as predators.
Bacteria help you digest food and provide you with vitamins; you give them a home. What is the relationship like with the bacteria in your large intestine?
Mutualism
Bright colors that tell predators an animal is poisonous.
Warming coloring
The effect on the predator population when the prey population decreases.
Predator population decrease
The organism that is harmed in a parasitic relationship.
HOST
A pattern on an animal, like fake eyes, that tricks a predator into biting the wrong end.
False coloring - The butterfly fish uses a false eye spot to help it escape.
What occurs when a parasite lives in both ears of a moth?
Loss of hearing makes the moth easy prey for predators.