STUDY: Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Kish Island, Iran. Photo courtesy of Hamed Saber/Flickr.

Carrying Capacity: the number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support over time, with changing the ecosystem.

Commensalism: Relationship in which one organism benefits and the other one is unaffected.

Ecosystem: part of a biome in which living and non-living things interact with one another.

Hypothesis: a guess based on facts.

Mutualism: Relationship in which both organisms benefit.

Observations: Information about the environment or a particular phenomenon.

Parasitism: Relationship in which one organism suffers and another one benefits from it.

Prediction: Guess of what might happen in a situation based on a hypothesis.

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