8.L.3.2 Vocabulary

Relationship in which both species benefit

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• cooperation

An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms

• autotrophs

• decomposers

• producers

• consumers

How an organism acts in its ecosystem (the organisms role)

• limiting factor

• coexistence

• niche

• cooperation

Organism that cannot make their own food

• heterotroph

• autotroph

• consumer

• producer

Relationship in which one animal hunts, kills, and eats another

• parasitism

• predator

• prey

• predation

Relationship between a parasite and its host

• parasitism

• mutualism

• commensalism

• predation

Organism that produces its own food

Occurs when organisms in an ecosystem try to get the same resources

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Relationship where one species benefits without benefiting or harming the other species

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• symbiosis

Organisms that live in the same habitat but rely on different resources

• cooperation

• coexistence

• carrying capacity

• density dependent

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5