B.7 Darwin and Evolution M&L

The actual place an organism lives within an ecosystem

• Habitat

• Niche

• Resource

• Competitive Exclusion Principle

Where an organism lives and what it does for a living, including the way it interacts with biotic and abiotic factors.

• Habitat

• Niche

• Resource

• Competitive Exclusion Principle

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Any necessity of life

• Habitat

• Niche

• Resource

• Competitive Exclusion Principle

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No two species can occupy exactly the same niche in exactly the same habitat at exactly the same time.

• Habitat

• Niche

• Resource

• Competitive Exclusion Principle

A particularly close, interdependent relationship between two species

• Symbiosis

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed

• Symbiosis

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

A relationship between two species in which both species benefit

• Symbiosis

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

A relationship in which one organism lives inside or on another organism and harms it

• Symbiosis

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

Life on Earth changes over time

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Fitness

• Natural Selection

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Check all that apply: What did Darwin's theory of biological evolution explain?

• The unity and diversity of life

• modern organisms evolved from ancestors

• Earth is extremely young

• The process that has changed Earth in the past has stopped occurring in the present

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