ADAPTATIONS

A behavior or physical characteristics that allows an organism to live successfully in its environment.

ADAPTATION

• Adaptation is a behavior or physical characteristic that allows an organism to live successfully in its environment

This frog has the ability to camouflage for it to not to be caught by his predators.

This clownfish can camouflage at night and they can hide in anemone to avoid predators.

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PREDATION

• Predation is an interaction in which one organism kills another for food.

For example, the bear in this picture is the predator and the fish is his prey.

In this case, the frog is hunted by the snake, the snake is the predator and the frog is the prey.

Here's another example of predation.

SYMBIOSIS

• A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species.

MUTUALISM

• A relationship between two species in which both species benefit.
• Oxpecker and a Zebra
• A bee and another flower.

COMMENSALISM

• A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
• Whale and barnacle
• Clownfish and anemone

PARASITISM

• A relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it.
• Host: an organism that provides food to a parasite that lives on or inside it.

Natural selection is a process by which characteristics that make individual better suited to its environment become more common in a specie.

Niche is the role of an organism in its habitat, or how it makes its living.

Competition is the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource.