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| 9251569291 | community | A group of various species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other | 0 | |
| 9251569292 | commensalism | A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefited |  | 1 |
| 9251569293 | habitat | type of environment in which a species typically lives | 2 | |
| 9251569294 | symbiosis | A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other | 3 | |
| 9251569295 | mutualism | A relationship between two species in which both species benefit |  | 4 |
| 9251569297 | competitive exclusion | process whereby two species compete for a limiting resource, and one drives the other to local extinction |  | 5 |
| 9251569298 | ecological niche | the resources and environmental conditions that a species requires | 6 | |
| 9251569299 | interspecific competition | competition between members of different species |  | 7 |
| 9251569300 | resource partitioning | species adapt to access different portions of a limited resource; allows species with similar needs to coexist |  | 8 |
| 9251569303 | parasitism | relationship in which one species withdraws nutrients from another species, without immediately killing it |  | 9 |
| 9251569305 | pioneer species | species that colonize a new habitat | 10 | |
| 9251569306 | primary succession | An ecological succession that begins in an area where no biotic community previously existed |  | 11 |
| 9251569307 | secondary succession | Succession following a disturbance that destroys a community without destroying the soil |  | 12 |
| 9251569310 | keystone species | A species that influences the survival of many other species in an ecosystem | 13 |
