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migration | The yearly movement of animals to follow food or water. |
hibernation | The shutting down of body systems and "sleeping" through winter to CONSERVE energy. |
territorial imperative | The need of animals and plants to defend their territory from others. |
social hierarchy | Living in a society or group and having different levels of responsibilities and jobs with leaders and followers. |
competition | Two or more organisms trying to get the same resources at the same time. |
cooperation | Two or more animals of the SAME species working together so everyone benefits. |
mutualism | The symbiotic relationship where two or more organisms of DIFFERENT species work together and all are helped. |
predation | One animals hunting, killing, and eating another animal. |
commensalism | The symbiotic relationship relationship where one organism is helped but the other organism is not helped or harmed by this relationship. |
parasite | The organism that feeds off another organism. |
host | The organism that is harmed when it is feed off of. |
predator | The animal that hunts, kills, and eats another animal for food. |
prey | The animal that is hunted, killed, and eaten by another. |
parasitism | The symbiotic relationship where one organism is helped by harming the other organism. |
dormancy | The process where plants lose their leaves and "sleep" during the winter to conserve their energy. |
phototropism | The process where plants grow towards the light in order to get for energy for photosynthesis. |
symbiosis | The close relationship between 2 different species of organisms where 1 organism lives near, on, or inside the other and at least 1 organism is helped. |