| A | B |
| behavior | conduct of an organism |
| Instinct | complex innate behavior |
| Imprinting | behavior determinned during a sensitive period predetermined genetically |
| Habituation | exposed to a stimulous so man times it learns to not know it is there |
| Conditioning | when innate behaviors are changed |
| pheromone | chemical subtance given off that changes the behavior of an organism of the same species |
| Habitat | place where something lives |
| Parasitism | a plus minus relationship between a parasite and a host |
| Pavlov | Russian scientist whostudied dogs and behaviors with bells and food.Condtioning expert |
| Population | all organisms of a single species |
| animal societies | populations thta exhibit organized, cooperative behavior |
| Domiance hierarchies | behaviors which acknoledge which organisms have the higher place in society |
| caste systems | highly organized societies whose population depends on each individual doing its job |
| abiotic | without life |
| niche | job |
| commensalisms | plus, zero relationship |
| succesion | gradual process by which one community replaces another |
| climax community | so many organism that no more can fit in the community |
| biome | regions with similar physical eviroment |
| food chain | the transfer of food from one tropic level to another |
| food web | food chains in an ecosystem taken collectively showing partial food lap and competition for food |
| mutualism | plus plus relationship |