new ONEKA Relationships In Nature

Commensalism

1 benefits and other is not harmed nor helped

food web

A community of organisms where there are SEVERAL interrelated food chains

food chain

A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

limiting factor

An environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing

consumer

An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

Niche

An organism's particular role in an ecosystem

Mutualism

Cooperative partnership between 2 species witch both benefit

Parasitism

The relationship between a parasite and it's host

Community

When members of a species live and work together.

populations

groups of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area

extinct

no longer living

Decomposer

organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead organic matter