Key Vocabulary
Competition: when two organisms fight for the same limited resources.
Predation: process by which one organism captures and feeds up on another organism.
Symbiosis: is a close ecological relationship between two or more organisms of different species that live in direct contract with one another
Mutualism: inter-species interaction in which both organisms benefit form one another
Commensalism: relationship between two organisms in which one receives an ecological benefit from another while the other neither benefits nor is harmed.
Parasitism: relationship similar to predation in that one organism benefits while the other is harmed.
Predation: process by which one organism captures and feeds up on another organism.
Symbiosis: is a close ecological relationship between two or more organisms of different species that live in direct contract with one another
Mutualism: inter-species interaction in which both organisms benefit form one another
Commensalism: relationship between two organisms in which one receives an ecological benefit from another while the other neither benefits nor is harmed.
Parasitism: relationship similar to predation in that one organism benefits while the other is harmed.