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2. the act of one organism pursuing and consuming another organism for food.
4. The ability of any organism to survive when subjected to biotic and abiotic factors
5. one organism benefits; the other is neither helped nor harmed
11. a group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time.
13. any abiotic or biotic factor that restricts the numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms.
15. an area where an organism lives.
16. a large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities.
17. a biological community and all of the abiotic factors that affect it.

1. Organisms of a single species that share the same geographic location at the time make up a
3. one organism benefits at the expense of the other
6. the portion of the Earth that supports life.
7. living factors in an organism’s environment.
8. both organisms benefit
9. the close relationship that exists when two or more species live together.
10. the nonliving factors in an organism’s environment.
12. the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
14. the role or position that an organism has in its environment.