Organisms Relationships

3. a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism
5. evidence from many related investigations supports an idea.
8. the portion of Earth that supports life.
10. factor, the nonliving factors in an organism’s environment.
11. the process of natural changes that take place during the life of an organism.
14. a relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is neither helped nor harmed.
17. factor, the living factors in an organism’s environment.
18. inherited characteristic that results from changes to a species over time.
19. community, a group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time.
20. results in the addition of mass to an organism.
21. most living things are the result of it.

1. regulation of an organism’s internal conditions to maintain life.
2. the reaction to a stimulus.
4. anything that is part of either environment and causes some sort of reaction by the organism
6. a group of organisms that can breed with one another and produce fertile offspring.
7. the scientific discipline in which the relationships among living organisms and the interaction the organisms have with their environments are studied
9. the act of one organism consuming another organism for food.
12. people study living things or pose questions about how living things interact with the environment.
13. the relationship between two or more organisms that live closely together and benefit from each other.
15. individual organisms of a single species that share the same geographic location
16. the same time.
22. more organism uses a resource at the same time.