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| 38205756 | interspecific competition | in a community competition for resources between members of different species | 0 | |
| 38205757 | predation | interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism | 1 | |
| 38205758 | parasitism | symbiotic relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism (the host) and consequently harms it | 2 | |
| 38205759 | mutualism | symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship | 3 | |
| 38205760 | commensalism | symbiotic relationship in which one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed | 4 | |
| 38205761 | prey | an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism | 5 | |
| 38205762 | predator-prey relationship | relationship that has evolved between two organisms, in which one organism has become the prey for the other | 6 | |
| 38205763 | coevolution | evolution in which two or more species interact and exert selective pressures on each other that can lead each species to undergo adaptations | 7 | |
| 38205764 | resource partioning | Species end up sharing or splitting the resource, which makes them no longer in competetion (Hawks & Owls--different time) | 8 | |
| 38205765 | population dynamics | The study of how complex interactions between biotic and abiotic factors influence variations in population size. | 9 | |
| 38205766 | age structure | the distribution of individuals among different ages in a population | 10 | |
| 38205767 | biotic potential | the maximum reproductive rate of an organism, given unlimited resources and ideal environmental conditions | 11 | |
| 38205768 | intrinsic rate of increase | rate at which the population of a species would grow if it had unlimited resources | 12 | |
| 38205769 | environmental resistance | All the limiting factors that act together to limit the growth of a population. | 13 | |
| 38205770 | carrying capacity | largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support | 14 | |
| 38205771 | logistic growth | Growth rates regulated by internal and external factors that establish an equilibrium with environmental resources | 15 | |
| 39824921 | secondary succession | refers to the channges after a communty is disrupted after a natural disaster or human actiona | 16 | |
| 39824922 | inertia | The reluctance of any organism to change its state of motion | 17 | |
| 39824923 | nonnative species | Species that migrate into an ecosystem or are deliberately or accidentally introduced into an ecosystem by humans. | 18 | |
| 39824924 | primary succession | an ecological succession that begins in a an area where no biotic community previously existed | 19 | |
| 39824925 | resilience | the ability to recover | 20 |
