Adaptation & Relationships

Adaptation

Change to an organism to fit the environment

Behavioral Adaptation

What an organism does that helps it fit the environment

Classical Conditioning

Learning by association between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus

Commensalism

One organism is not affected and the other is helped

Competition

Relationship between organisms that strive for the same resources in the same place

Mutualism

Both organisms are helped in some way

Parasitism

One organism is harmed and the other is helped

Pheromones

Chemical signals given off by animals to engage in specific behaviors

Physiological Adaptation

The chemical part of an organism that helps it fit the environment

Predation

Where one organism captures and consumes another

Structural Adaptation

What an organism looks like that helps it fit the environment

Symbiosis

The close relationship developed between species in an ecosystem