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5.2 Species Interactions Answer Key

Question: Niche

Answer: Describes what an organism does and how it interacts with biotic and abiotic factors

Question: Tolerance

Answer: The ability to survive and reproduce under a range of environmental circumstances

Question: resource partitioning

Answer: species divide the resource they use in common by specializing in different ways

Question: Predation

Answer: The process by which one organism captures and feeds upon another organism

Question: Coevolution

Answer: Process by which two species evolve in response to changes in each other

Question: Parasitism

Answer: a relationship in which one organism depends on another for a benefit

Question: Symbiosis

Answer: Long lasting and physically close relationship in which at least one organism benefits

Question: Herbivory

Answer: interaction in which one animal (the herbivore) feeds on producers (such as plants)

Question: Mutualism

Answer: A relationship between two species in which both species benefit

Question: Commensalism

Answer: Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed