Ecological Relationships

Front

What is a feeding relationship where one organism hunts and one is hunted?

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Predator-Prey

Front

What is it called when two organisms of the same species fight over the same resource?

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Intraspecies competition

Front

What is the term for a relationship where one organism feeds off another, causing discomfort or harm?

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Parasitism

Front

What do you call an animal that feeds on the flesh of whatever another animal has killed?

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Scavenger

Front

What is the term for a close interaction between two different species?

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Symbiosis

Front

What type of relationship benefits both organisms involved?

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Mutualism

Front

What is the term for the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem?

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Biodiversity

Front

What is the relationship called where one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed?

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Commensalism

Front

What is the process called where dead organic matter is broken down by decomposers?

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Decomposition

Front

What is the term for the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources?

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Competition