text: what are the biotic interaction? examples for each biotic interaction ok. 'biotic' comes from bio=life, living.  'action', i'm supposing you know what that is.  'inter' is a prefix that indicates, in this case, reciprocal. the reciprocal interactions among living things are extremely diverse. for simplification purposes, ecologists tend to classify them in a few basic categories. for instance, what you're doing by coming to this board and trying to get an answer here is pretty much like _parasitism_. you're taking up our time, that is, it's a loss for us, a gain for you. if, on the other hand, you were willing to give some information in exchange for this one, we could reach a _mutualistic_ interaction. both participants have a net gain. if somehow we found that we could not live without each other, that would be _obligate mutualism_, although some people call it _symbiosis_.  if a rare computer virus chose your computer to spread to the world and destroyed it in the meantime, that would be _parasitoidism_.   i'm sure you can take it from here! please look for biological examples, these ones won't work.  pd: i'm actually gaining two points, so what type of biotic interaction would that be?