Vocabulary 12

3. The elimination of one species by another as a result of competition.
5. A living component of an environment.
6. The study of the interactions between organisms and their environment.
7. The interaction that results when a resource is in a short supply and one organism uses the resources at the expense of another.
9. The sharing of resources by specialization.
10. The maximum population size that can be sustained by the available resources in a given environment.
11. A non-living (physical or chemical) component of the environment.

1. The type of symbiosis in which one partner the parasites derives benefit from the other host.
2. The full range of ecological characteristics of a species, like it feeding habitat, and reproductive strategy.
4. Unrestricted population growth where the population grows at a faster rate with each successive generations.
8. The type of symbiosis in which both partners benefit from the relationship.