What are things that an organism in a community might compete for?
100
An animal that hunts for food.
What is a predator?
100
A relationship between two organisms that interact in a way that benefits at least one of them.
What is symbiosis?
100
The way in which an organism responds to its environment.
What is a behavior?
200
The struggle between two or more organisms or two or more kinds of organisms for resources in a short supply.
What is competition?
200
They can balance the structure of the community.
What is a benefit of predator-prey relationships?
200
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed. A leech attaching to a host's body and sucking the host's blood is an example.
What is parasitism?
200
Anything in the environment that causes a reaction or response.
What is a stimulus?
300
Materials from the environment that living things use to live and grow. Food, water, and shelter are examples.
What is a resource?
300
Size of each population
What is in flux because of predator-prey relationships?
300
A symbiotic relationship in which both types of organism help each other and both benefit. Bees pollinating flowers as they sip the flowers' nectar is an example.
What is mutualism?
300
Any interaction between organisms of the same kind. Male mountain goats fighting to defend their territory is an example.
What is social behavior?
400
Competition between members of the same population (same species), or different populations (different species).
What are the two ways that competition can happen?
400
Fangs of snakes, speed of a cheetah, sting of a scorpion, etc.
What are adaptations?
400
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other neither benefits nor is harmed. Barnacles attached to a whale is an example.
What is commensalism?
400
Developing behaviors during a specific period of time. Usually occurs right after an organism is born.