Interactions Among Living Things

___ are the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.

• Predation

• Commensalism

• Adaptations

• biomes

Owls have adapted to hunt their prey at night by having large eyes which make it possible for them to see in the dark. This is an example of a ___ adaptation.

• Predator

• Prey

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___ need to use their adaptations to avoid being eaten by their predators so they can survive and produce more offspring.

• Predators

• Prey

___ is the symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits from the relationship while the other is neither helped nor harmed (ex. a bird building a nest in a tree)

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

___ is the symbiotic relationship where one organism lives inside its host, and the host is harmed while the organism benefits from this relationship.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

___ is a symbiotic relationship where both organisms are benefited.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

___ is where organisms with characteristics best suited for the environment survive and produce offspring which inherit the beneficial characteristics.

• adaptation

• natural selection

• commensalism

• predation

___ is the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources (food, water, shelter) in a particular area.

• Parasitism

• Natural selection

• Predation

• Competition

___ is an interaction in which one organism kills another for food.

• Competition

• Mutualism

• Predation

• Prey

Speed and agility, trapping mechanisms, and heightened senses are examples of ___ adaptations.

• Predator

• Prey