Interspecies interactions

Organisms of two species use the same limited resource and have a negative impact on each other.

• Competition

• Predation

• Herbivory

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

A member of one species, predator, eats all or part of the body of a member of another species, prey.

• Herbivory

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

• Predation

• Commensalism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A special case of predation in which the prey species is a plant

• Predation

• Competition

• Herbivory

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A long-term, close association between two species in which both partners benefit

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Predation

• Competition

A long-term, close association between two species in which one benefits and the other is unaffected

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Competition

• Predation

• Mutualism

A long-term, close association between two species in which one benefits and the other is harmed

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Predation